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which confirmed to British Subjects all privileges
on them
immunities and advantages conferred by previous heakes, consequently re-affirined the guarantee given m' Captam Elliotó
Proclamation that the action
of the t
Revenue Collectorates now placed (mi Chinese) Territory) at ponits east west and south of the Colony, and of the Revennie Cruisers
under the orders of the Supermitendent of
avo
Customs, the Hoppo, he is commonly called, which interferes prejudicially with the trade of the punks frequenting the Colony, is in violation of the privileges guaranteed by lapton Elliot, and so long tacitly recognised by the Chinese Government; that the proceedings of the Revenue Cruisers in particular, which only scour the waters beyond the limits of our Colony's piriadiation.
not
but
watch
watch the junk. trade m` our
harbour, are,
own
if not illegal, at variance
with the usage of nations, the vessels
m' question
not
being,
ao
sometimes
pretended, vessels belonging to the Chinese Navy,
not
benig
even vessels commissioned
by the Government of China, but vessels
employed merely under the authority of the Hoppo. It
It was
urged, lastly, that the
surveillance by these vessels of the junk hade
of the Colony
was
the
mov vexationo mas much
as it involved the Co-operation of Chinese detectives who had their head quarters on shore; while, in the harbour, the presence of the Revenue Cruisers had been in some molanzes
taken advantage of by persons suspected of crime who by alleging that they belonged to the Revenue Service, had forled ther Colonial Police engaged in pursuit of them
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