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
as
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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
irpom
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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