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 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
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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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