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I thought it prudent to adopt the suggestion for the addition of a suspending clause - the more so, because I do not believe that there is even the faintest risk of any ship "bound for or about to proceed to Canton or Macao," being forfeited, during the interval of delay caused by vision of clause 5, being for a short time.
The pre-cautions which are quite apart from the provisions of the present Ordinance, and for years past have been within the competence of the masters of such ships to exercise.
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I have caused the opium farmer and his Counsel to be informed that the Ordinance will be transmitted to Your Lordship by this mail, and that if it be desired to make...