CO129-018 - Others - 1846 — Page 94

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Hous

Comm Admira

Agent

32

Board of

Fore

Offic

to exercise Chinese Civil Jurisdiction.

Inmediately upon the receipt

of the Orders of the hajor General,

and the other

I wrote to keen. ling Commissioners to inform them of the orders I had received, and at the same time I invited them to Come over at once to Lingkae, that I might deliver over to their Civil Jurisdiction the bland of

Chusan .

The Commisioners to postpone their

loere

voyage,

obliged

in

деhe Consequence of the boisterous

state of the locather, and the

wind

wind being unfavourable, and-

Aware

Lea

of their apprehensions fa Voyage, it accursed to me that if Captain hupell, commanding 4.2.5.C+ Steamer hemesis, then lying a

kingko,

at

were to offer to convey them acrop, they would not only consider it a high compliment, but an act of Great kindness and consideration. Faccordingly wrote to Captain hupell, who most obligingly

-obligingly entered into

my views, and made the proposal to the Commissioners to convey them to Chusan in the hemesis, which

they

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