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Hong Kong partakes
in and profits by traffic which the Queen's
Government deplores and
protests against.
There can
be
doubt.
War on
Chinese traffic, why British
subjects resident in
(as well as
there is
any
Australasia!)
Hong should not be sub-
jected
to the punishment
prescribed in Section 9
of the Kidnapping
Act 1872
for the offences specified
in that section, if they commit offences within the jurisdiction of the Colony, and
are to be
tried
with making
Connected with
the provisioning of
Cooly ships
5. Request for to prove
four particular attention
to the
"
Act, 1872.
to consider
if possible
to beat its provisions
right
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the meaning
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be made after-
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me & draft ordinance
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for that purpose
I don't think
delicate a matter it and be
Safe to have it to
ite
H. K. just to pass are ordinance without its being personally
cont
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and stopping all
of
immense benefit H. A. a
the Attorney Several
matter
of opinion that reference to this correspondence
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necessary,
I shall be
the measures trade. I prefer obliged by your causing
to peruse deliberated.
Is not this paragraph
doubtful:
or
we ourselves
en deavouring
the utmost expedition to
be used
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can allow of
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in the matter.
delay
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can be Offed for pre- venting the resort. Cooly ships to the best of their being
and