CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 294

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prosperity which it representes, were induced as aforesaid to embark their capital to -

a

large extent, in the a construction of a

class of

House property suited to

the residence and tr

trading

pursuits of such settler's

D

• aforesaid .

6. That the result

such investment, so

A J

it was.

of

long

left untouched

by illegal and alien influences, justified their Confidence. energy of a Chinese

in the

population thus protected

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by British Laws, and identifies with the supremacy of the

British brown.

Whereas, however, the

f

- Imperial Government China, hath recently issued

the

appended Manifests, - through its Prefect of the District of Heong Shan, Challenging the Sovereignty of the British brown over

the a

anglo Chinese poprelation of this settlement, and peremptorily commanding such population not only under the penalty of treason,

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