CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 124

letter

(as

: ( us far as I can ascertain / from the first hour of

their

enactment - No steps appear by

records

to have been taken in-

our

the

reference to them either by Authorities or by those of China. now has any Complaint

any Complaint over been brought forward by the Authorities in china on the • ground of their Obandonment. Their rigorous

cent would indeed have enforcement,

been impossible either by

the

Chinose or by ourselves, nor would it be associated with any corresponding good of which I am aware. There Sems to have been from

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the first a disposition and a

determination on all sides

to

regard cuticles 14 and 16 as

nugatory and in

- inoperative _ but I cannot conclude this Despatch. without stating that every attempt which has been made to obtain the harmonious co-operation or intervention of the Custom house authorities of

Canton with our own authorities

in order to give effect to the engagements of Treaties has been invariably repudiated, and all

To the Superior Custom

Access

-house Officers rigidly denied.