CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 125

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There is no officer in Honghong who has to my knowledge,

ever

made a Communication lo_

received a Communication

unication from,

Any

Chinese authority

on

any

Sufor

Gubject connected with the s

Commerce

of

the Colony; imm

; immense

as is that commerce, and

emancipated wholly from fiscal interference of any Gort . The hade of Hong Kong feed from all Custom House interference, has grown to gigantic proportions 800,000 Tons of British and foreign shipping having entered

the harbour in the

Year 1856,

122

only be

white of Chinese Junks from every quarter the numbers can Approximatively eshimoted. They Clear out without molestation,

from

all the ports of China, and are Admitted into all the ports without hindrance or difficulty. Wholern have been the original

May

intentions or opinions of the framers

the Treaties with China as to

of the

"the position Hongkong was to occupy it has become ;

e from the -force app incritable and incontrollers Circumstances, one of the most important Commercial Déposs of the Oriental world.