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-lawfuel traffic in it, while they will remove the temptation, and curtail the :facilities for smuggling with the fatory.
with
My Lords presume that care will be taken to prevent the Colony being rendered herety a more convenient depôt for
parties
Engaged
in the illicit Trade with
China . They are satisfied that any Commercial advantages which sight for the moment appear to be derived from the increase of such a traffic at Hongkong,
would be more than counterbalanced
should piot cause for complaint on this score be given to the Government of
Chuv
Jam to add that by Lords do not perceive the reason which has induced the Governor to alter the
regulation prohibiting the sale of Opium
on
on Sundays. The propriety of the regulation, or of its abandonment, is of coarse a matter upon which they are not called to pronounce au opinion.
Lam
Lir
Jour Dredient Servant.
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