CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 269

N. 72, 5718th.

Malosure. A. l in Despatch

Duplicate

Inhabitants of the Colonys. money from the native Sinan (clock) for boying. 22nd Nov 1844.

of as chinese officer (the Reying, reporting, seizure- From Governor Davis to

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Neying, High Imperial Commissioner, Member of the Imperial clan, Governor- General of Hwangtung and Nwangee-,

V., sends the following

to. te.

answer:

Having successively received.

Several letters from you.

Invry, I answered me

when

DIL

the Honorable

by one,

and

I just

the point. of dispatching them, another arrived, detailing the

circumstances of a Singan. clerk having

of Selling

been detained on account.

paceports at Shik paewan... With these. particulars I have made myself-fully

acquainted

It

appears that there exsets a law,

鲨

that the local Mandarins should insur

presports to the fishing smacks along the coast, on

procceding.

ሀ.

their

pursuets