CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 10

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be for the Committer, were

were the

land Revenue and the Opeium

Farm, and there would seem

fune

th

Report

which has

been published, to have been

an inpression among that Hong Kong stood

the Committer

the

footing rather of an Infinial

a

Colonial Establishment

and that the Merchants settled there, had therefore a lacin to look to the Superial Lear

sary for bearing

the

Ame

assistame in

expenses of the

beal Govenment. Upon what grounds this

this

impression rested

it would be impossible to

without he

Lay

evidence

of any

having

read the

but. Iam not aware

aircumstances connected

with Hong Kong, which might

not be predicated with equal buth of several other Butish Colones. The essential question

I presume to be, whether Any

Kong

Cau

bear the Taxation

necessary to provide for its

expenditure without such a poss

in

its Trade,

ax

k

bo destroy in

swe

great measures the usefulness

the Settlement.

of the

When Hong Kong

first