CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 121

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Clany to give affect to your s

instructions -

way

I am

2. 3.

- Convinced that the repeat

of the clauses . Nod 2 . 3 . 4 and 5

Jos would be regarded with the s utmost Alarm, by the Community generally and be attended

with extreme danger.

At the present moment particularly when there is

an

influx of

000

about 10,00

Chinamen shangers to the (olony — when more than half the Military forces

are about to be withdrawn -

when active.

Operations

against Cant on are immediatly

to be entered on - and when

we

have

reason to

machinations

may

Sear

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new

be rife .

I should deem it imprudent

}

in the highest degree to relax regulations whose stringency has not been complained of by the respectable part of the Chinese population and which have been found to work admirably well if or the security and the & Aranquillity of the Colony.

I have consulted the

Care of Elyin in this t matter and His Lordship Cordially agrees in my

in

6.

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