CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 354

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Mr Pollard to Colonial Secretary.

Sir

(Copy)

Honghong 25th July

1862.

I have the honor to submit the following circumstances for the consideration of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government.

N-V

At the last Criminal Sessions one William Kent Stanford late Master of the receiving Ship "Tropic lying in this trarbour, was convicted of felony and in strict formality the goods of the felon and those in his custody.

tris order

or control or under

or disposition have in so

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consequence become cocheated to the

brower

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Wirile the

case was in progress

against Stanford the whole of the Books of the Tropic"

wvere

investigated

under the sanction of the bluef

Police Magistrate by Mess'? Baker

Webster as Accountants on

and Webster

betralf of the breditors of the owners of the Tropic and by their

report it appears that of the Opium

terraining

board the "Tropic

о

4 chists of Malwa marked AH

No 970, 974, 975 and 976 are the

970,974,975

پاهای

property

of

The Chartered

Mercantile Bank of India

London and China and 15

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