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forrener ( with the lith of Licht. for. only)

with a small salary.

And the

Superialiatory of Trade (to Shich the

Meijn office had affainted Fir). Bowring) was to be altogether separated from the govenment of Hong Kong.

But on looking into the matter We saw that the Acts regulating the China Trade made this impossible, beause they confer some important functions on the for. of HK and Sup? of trade, assuming Kore offices to In filled by the same person. And it was not thought advisable to alter there Acts.

The alternation Embraced was, To make Six ). Downing found of Hong Kong without salary, & rominally

the internal forrentunt

only as far

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In island was concerned. And since

we were driven to this

arrargement –

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very vehuntantly on our parts _-_ or hoped that some attantage might to thawn hom the necessity : that Sir J. Dowling

might to useful in Hong Kong, where

The the most important frontion of Executive really is to take chays of British interests in ulation to China provided he abstained for meddling with strictly colonial affairs.

In His sense W Peeli letter of 15 IN 1854 was drawn up. And altagt die ). B. Faker advantage

of one or two Expersions in it; I do not think it. Some can

I can I really

h

meaning

misunderstood. Desider which, Sir JB. being thon in England, had, Jam sme,

the apsistance of full oral explanation.

Since then he has ben almost wholly absent in China: but appears how to have whimed: and forthwith