CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4] — Page 224

If the increase of population & trade continuer

at the present rate, & the present nontions are for a time maintained.

Af Expenditure ar

Hong Kong with my soon hom a self swthroating colony without additional taxation.

HM June 20

Entered

4974 Hongkong

In George Bonham:

In Elliot

for Merivale Dr Pell

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His Grace The Duke of Newenstle.

Governo Sir George Bonham, 35,

7th lipril, 1854.

N33. 15 Melozures.

Received

and reporting the

of Honghong for the year 1853, thercom.

Transmitting the Blue Book

30 Lune Sir

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For Grange grey had

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Do armig 5th July 1854

I have had before

Ine a se

Despatch written

by you before quitting the government of Hongkong

No 33

of

the wyth of April 1854,

forwarding

the customary

Annual Report

on the

Blue Book for 1853.

The concluding

Table appended to this

sex patch exhibits in a

few lines the constan

constantsy

progressive increase of population and of hade,