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under his consideration & indeed
he was prepareer to go farther than you suggestedt, but he thought that yo proposition to establish a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs as Hongkong w? effectually meet the difficulty, & he entirely coincisued in yo
views..
daidh n
On hearing this
my mission was fulfilled but is the levy & collection of Chinese Revenue in a British Colony might be attended with legal difficulties & presumed that point hack not exaped his attention. To this Sir A Henneay replied that it
if the
proposition
was entertained by H. Mis gout provision w. doubtless be mache
for onet contingency
I cannot of course sayy
what Sir A Kennedy
will do
in the matter but I presume
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he will refer it to his Council for consideration previous to memitting it to 4. M's Scott of
of the Colonies..
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State for
(s) B. Robertson
he