CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 547

Ordinance

2.

It has been the

policy of Her Majesty's

Government for many

many sear

past to inconsage

possible

enforce as far as uniformity of legislation

for the several races inhabiting the Colonial Pofuchsions of the Cowon

It has been felt that

or minor

ave temporary Higucts of expediency ought

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not to be allowed to stand

in the way of a frinciple

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Thoroughly established in British policy, so receforny

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towards the maintenance

of that extended Empire which is not to be pre=

Served by the porcibly

treating and maintaining

tellishment of

a

Dominant clefs, race

day

3. I cannot concein

That recent fears or

suspicions, aroused by