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Office of Committic

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Rivy Councel for Trade,

Whitehall 2. July 1846.

reference to your letter of the

hi ha lite sau 3 May last, I am directed by the Lords of

the Committee of Privy Council for Frade, to transmit to you for the information of Mr. Secretary, Gladstone, Copy, of a Report from the Commissioners of Customs, stating that the Wessel in question being foreign, it

be contrary

to the provisions of the

Copy

to you: 15-29 Ang : 1846.

Would

Navigation Law to import Coals therein into

but that the Commissioners

Hongkong; aware of

made use

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all

objection to the Vessel proceeding to that - place in Ballast, for the purpose of being

of as a floating Coal Depôt for the supply of any Vessels at Hong Kong with Coals . My Lords have suite quently ascertained that it is the opinion of the Authorities at the Customs, that if the Vessel in question carry- Coals to Hong Kong, but does not land them there, no forfeiture will be incurred. ___

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James Stephen Esgre

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