CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 299

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great Commercial and sanitary value to us (while to the Chinese it

is not only of anarchy and

I hope thereafter

on Staining

14.

is value but a seat of

a source

of embarrassment)

measures will be taken

a cession of this tract of land

One subject I wish

I wish again

Flami

to

many

were on the attention of Her Majesty's Government. There have been proposals to tax the Commerce of Hong Kong for general and special purposes. Believing that the satisfactory development of our prosperity is mainly due to the emancipation of all shipping and trade from fiscal restrictions and exactions, I trust no

Custom House Machinery will ever be introduced either for the collection

of Tariff, or Harbor Dues, or for any which may check the free

ingress and

egress of all shipping to and from the port,

and the free transfer of commodities from hand to hand. Donghong presents another example of the elasticity and

potency of unrestricted commerce which in my judgment

has

more

than counterbalanced the barrenness of its soil, the absence of agricultural and manufacturing industry, the disadvantages of its climate and every impediment which could clog its progress. Its magnificent

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great Commercial and sanitary value to us (while to the Chinese itis not only of anarchy andI hope thereafteron Staining14.is value but a seat ofa sourceof embarrassment)measures will be takena cession of this tract of landOne subject I wishI wish againFlamitomanywere on the attention of Her Majesty's Government. There have been proposals to tax the Commerce of Hong Kong for general and special purposes. Believing that the satisfactory development of our prosperity is mainly due to the emancipation of all shipping and trade from fiscal restrictions and exactions, I trust noCustom House Machinery will ever be introduced either for the collectionof Tariff, or Harbor Dues, or for any which may check the freeingress andegress of all shipping to and from the port,and the free transfer of commodities from hand to hand. Donghong presents another example of the elasticity andpotency of unrestricted commerce which in my judgmenthasmorethan counterbalanced the barrenness of its soil, the absence of agricultural and manufacturing industry, the disadvantages of its climate and every impediment which could clog its progress. Its magnificent
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great Commercial and sanatory value to us (while to the Chinese it

is not only of anarchy and

I hope theretne

on Staining

14.

is value but a seat of

a source

fembarrassment)

measures will be taken

a cession of this tract of land

One subject I wish

I wish again

Flami

to

many

were on the attention offter Majesty's Gvernment. There have been proposals to tax the Commerce of Houshing for general and special purposes. Believing that the satisfactory developement of our prosperity is mainly due to the emancipation of all shipping and trade from fiscal rexations and exactions, I trust no

296

Custom House Machinery will ever be introduced either for the collection

& Tariff, or Harbor Dues, or for any which may check the rice

Aurpose

ingress and

espere of all shipping the free

to and from the port,

un

hand

transfer of commodities from to hand. Donghong presents another example of the clasticity and

potency of unrestricted commerce which in my judgment

q its

has

more

than counterbalanced the baneness its soil, the absence of agricultural and manufacturing industry,_ the disadvantages of its climate and every impediment which could clog its progress. Its magnificent

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