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Sir,
Ang 1.1874.
I have the hot to acquaint you
that on the rest of yt desp. N: 12
of the 624
of July having reference
to the estabimt
a brauch of,
of the imp? Chinese Maritime Customs at the Colony
of Singkong,
as a
remedy for the allegest evils attending the present mode adopted by the Chinese goot of collecting duties on the funk trace of the Colony by surrounding it with dutif Stations & guard boats & proceeded at once to Hongkong had an interview with Sir a Kennedy, & laid fully before him the contents of oft desp, & in reply &. 8. said that the matter had been for long F. Wade Eraft CB.
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