CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856 — Page 145

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143

AGEN

from the Colonial office referred to by Zr Let does not accompany the despatch

I have directed this act to be republished in the Hongkong Gazette.

, and have called the attention by Erenler of H. Ms Cononls to it's provisions. These provisions have excited no small amount of surprise

and annoyance

both to British among the Merchants and among Chinese, many of whom proceeding from this Colony are British Subjects, and

the condemning of them to a heavy mulet on Landing British territory appears to

me the exercik of an authority very questionable and strangely arbitrang.

I have

de

(signed) John Bowring

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143 AGEN from the Colonial office referred to by Zr Let does not accompany the despatch I have directed this act to be republished in the Hongkong Gazette. , and have called the attention by Erenler of H. Ms Cononls to it's provisions. These provisions have excited no small amount of surprise and annoyance both to British among the Merchants and among Chinese, many of whom proceeding from this Colony are British Subjects, and the condemning of them to a heavy mulet on Landing British territory appears to me the exercik of an authority very questionable and strangely arbitrang. I have de (signed) John Bowring
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143 AGEN from the Colonial office referred to by Zr Let does not accompany- the despatch I have directed this act to be republished in the Hongkong Zazette. , and have called the attention by Erenler of H. Ms Cononls to it's provisions . These provisions have excited no small amount of surprise and annoyance both to British among the Merchants and among Chinese, many of whom proceeding from this Colony are British Subjects, and the the condemning of them to a heavy mulet on Landing British territory appears to 020 me the exercik of an authority very questionable and strangely arbitrang. I have de (signed) John Bowring
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143

AGEN

from the Colonial office referred to by Zr Let does not accompany- the despatch

I have directed this act to be republished in the Hongkong Zazette.

, and have called the

attention by Erenler of H. Ms Cononls to it's provisions . These provisions have excited no small amount of surprise

and annoyance

both to British among the

Merchants and among Chinese, many of whom proceeding from this Colony are British Subjects, and

the

the condemning of them to a heavy mulet on Landing British territory appears to

020

me the exercik of an authority very questionable and strangely arbitrang.

I have

de

(signed) John Bowring

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