CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 123

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Should- forward to Canton their registers which being sent

list of registers from Canton to Honghong would be the means by which the English Officer to be appointed there would- be enabled to ascertain whether the Registro or posses rehimed to him Coires prondsor not with those presented by the possess he examined. Were Sir Henry Tothinger still living it might possibly be ascertained, him how it was proposed at the tive of the framing of the Supplementary Treaty to carry out provisions incompatible with the Character of Hongkong

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fue port accessible to ships of all

nations - and

having

no liston

house establishment of any sort.

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arrangements appear to have Contemplated that Chinese pessels should & come to Hongthong from the 5 ports

in China and from other Chineze

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parts. For the due execution an

enormous staff of Officials.

be

would

required whose establishment would be alike incompatible with this revenues of the Colony and with the character of the port. I am not acquainted with the Circumstances under which these

· provisions remained

a dead

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