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The important matter

with regard to this Colony

which the Colonial office seem

"

never to have had

properle.

reported to them is that

a

"

considerable proportion

of the expences incident on Keeping it

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up

arites

not from Colonial Causes "but from the Imperial

"trade with China and the

"

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"Consular Establishments there.

"/

"the Colory, if properly

amaged, is perfectly expable

meeting its own

expences,

but then it is entitled

to

call upon the Imperial

Government

"

a

cartribution

Government for towards defraying the expences

"

arising from extra Colonial,

and

made

sources

this clain should be

upor

Parliament, not

" for the Colony of Honghong " but for the Imperial Trade " with "China which in the " articles of tex, opium, and " silk, is "the Stove Exchequer

۲۴

so

beneficial to

له

to lie

a

"well able to afford " contribution. I will particularis

"

sove

of the items in

" which the Colary has to pay for the Senperial Trade.

there had been a certain

amount