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Enclosure.
Vice Admiral to Governor of songting
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JUN 22
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Impericuse of Hongkong,
13th February 1892
Dear Sir William Robuison,
น
• raving carefully
the question put iin
your
considered
letter of
the 8th instant, I am of opinion -
that the clane in the Merchant
Orderiance of 1891,
which
Shipping relates to the provision of life belts
for each person embarked in the Canton and Macao Scaners is one which
CALL
e-of
might properly be modified, if not altogether rescinded in the Chinese passengers.
When
you
come to consider
what 2,000 or more Chinose em
barked