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thus enhanced, the

peculiar position of thie. Colony is unfavorable, to extending it's sources of Revenue, for it world

be inconsistent with ttre objects for which

it was

founded to

impose any

burthens

on shipping and trado

Actuated probably

by

this Consideration, and

by the important rational purposes for

which this settlement

twas created Parliament loas

has foreverly extended

very

F

very

liberal aid lö

Hong Kong. By the Anne and

Schedule it will be seen

that in 1845 it allotted

£49000 to this Colony,

and that the whole

Amounts grew in that and the 10 following

was no less than years ₤231.800, hit that in

1856 the Grant was

discontinued,

tinued, in the

hope doubtless that the

Colony world be able

defray

to de

it's oven

expenditures. In 1857 havever thre Paverna

was obliged to ask, and

oblained