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but to which no

report that on receipt of your Deepatch Sir Hercules Robinson addressed a

Admiral küper of which I enclose copy,

reply has yet.

keen received

here.

3. 138

letter to

and to the native population on shore

With

regard

to the former I must point-

out that Honghong is emphatically a free-

port, and that

any

vessel Chinese, British, or

Foreign has aright to enter therein and so

Admiral Küper sailed from this

& ultimo, and has noo I believe

on the 27th u

finally quitted the station.

Under these circumstances I am equally with Sir Hercules Robinson unable

to make report on any practical measures

that

have

Küper,

May

which

ocensed

do Siv- Auguetus

report

Siv Herentes Robinson

1

considered would have been the meat.

Convenient

form of answering the Complaint:

are

The remarks of Admiral Küper directed to the Native vessels in the harbor

long

as

her

Crew Commit

no Crime

Ov

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against the laws of the Colony, there to

remain unmolested.

An active supervisim is maintained over all vessels in harbor, by the Harbor Master over British and Foreign, by the Registrar - General

and Water Police over chinese or native.

to prevent

This supervision is so exercised as crime within the jurisdiction of this ~ Government without unnecessarily restricting,

of

vexationsly interfering with, the operations

Frade.