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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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3

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

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