Parious degrees of local
tome
and de
dependence.
their
Soive by embarking Capital at this place as their fixed. Contre
of
business.
Others by the Hill
Hell stronger local tie of investing their capital in the soil of the bolong, thus becoming permanent devizens, and direct Lessees of the British
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its
1. That for a period of
souve
this
-fifteen years immigration of Chiren. settlers into this Colony,
has continued without 291
challenge, of any kind on the part of the Chinese Government no doubt indeference, hitherts,
to the ind
in dependent Sovereignty of this Island, in sur which,
A A A
British
surrendering
ish possession
the Government of China
was bound not to
interfore
with its voluntary
Colonization by free chinese
settlers.
That the undersigned,
of
relying upon the basis this colonization and upon the elements of permanent
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