CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 61

was the first to whose lot it fell to put in the Peongest light I could,

"Laid before Parliament in a Report wh: was Laich before, the objections to to any schome wh. could. discourage the resort of shippion to H Ranch, I may perhaps now the letter venture to

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Mr. Harres.

I have read & considered this despatch. referred

which was

of your

Minute.

to men

in pursusare

pure is out get as y definimen of Revenne : the for: report a dimination of Revenue, out the Receipts

ere

exceeded by the Expedi

ture

Report is two

bulk to and

Aname

Sanden's

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that I doubt whether the time is not moderate connage datz

come when a

expressed by

would be approveinte in this Colony.

The objection of

Committee was

Sanden's

to making the resident

min Merchants of H. Hong peaz for the. of a Station which they considered to the established for the general protection of all Pride in the China Leas. Whethe or not this objection be well founded, it would not apply to a Jonnage

afsinst Duty. It might be a season

or against any heavy, Custom's Paties, or ape large

Lo

direct vacation; but it would

exactly be met by a Tonnage Dutz, which would fail, not upon the Residents, but on the Commerce athies das pored to benefit & R. din The danger at the on tiet might not succeed in Attracting a great resort of Sieffing But now that the resort is. I doubt whether they would

That we

m