CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 35

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25 of Fecember for the previous half- year (snebracing the first payment account of the sales in July last, and on account of the thungrean :District, the present occupiers of which though they purchased at the sale in January 1844, were

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: prosession until September ) will appear in this year's Retum.

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The peturnej Exports and Imports as required it has been found impossible to obtain in the

abance of any Customs House Establishment. The Harbour Master's brok's give only the vessels that have. entered the port, and the general nature of their cargoes het afford of Keroving what was unshipped or shipped on the spot, t have therefore prepared a table.

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according to the best sources of information in my poiver, and have taker from the Consular Returns of : Trade. the vessels cargoes to which

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have entered themselves as

4 for Houghing or which have cleaved out from the five ports for that place, and

from their names 42, Shave ascertained to be vessels employe in the coasting trade only. The goods they bring here are transhippice on their arrival into other vessels and are sent to Europe, India textu addition to these the bessels arriving from Bally & with rice and those with timber from Manila and the Strait have in general discharged part of

their

cargoes here, but as I am ignorant of the quantities landed, I have only put them doon under

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