but
A
open seat
4
to Macao in coming
liner
and steamers,
and although passenger
vessels may
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be fitted with barricades and gratings at the
time of inspection under
the
clause XXV
of the
Harbour Ordinance
yet I
have
doubt that they
are made in Hongkong
carried to sea (not
carrying food), and
fitted
elsewhere. I
presume that they
are carried to sea
in trading vessels
but it
would
be
desirable to know
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whether the inspection
of the passenger vessels
has been
as it
has
been at sea
a long
searching
I have
to despatch simply his complaint
in the opinion
as the
receipt for fresh legislation which I
have expressed in
my despatch No. 170 of the 20th ultimo
Kimberley