CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 295

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but under the hideous-

threat of the Massacre

their kindred

uppon

the

of

Mainland to q

quit such settlement forth with.

And whereas, under

the terror of the aforesaid Manifests, many of the respectable Chrivese settlers, : forthwith (though at

did

their

the sacrifice of all interent irretreivably inve

sirvested

in this settlement) flee from, and abandon the

sarre.

9.

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9.

And whereas such exodus

( thins illegally procured) hath grievously affected the interests of the undersigned by leaving Wante

and valueless many

of those chinese tenements which they had constructed

upon the faith, that there was only supreme Authority over this Colony

or its

population and that its Chinese Denizens were,

in no wise, amenable to

any foreign loever, state or

Potentate whatsoever.

10. Now in presence of all