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known, but they

are

not on

this

account Stongsong dunks, can the Colony be reasonably held answerable for any Offences they might have been imagined to have committed, or to have been about to commit

Should Ster Majestip Government be pleased to sanction Smarming ordinance (to which

I have made allusion in

my Sespatch N.57 of yesterday) I shall be glad to introduce such a measure into the Legislative Council, but without this I to not see how

Can

be done by

Mune

by this hovernment

the suppression

than is done now

of Piracy- out of our Starbour and beyoud jurisdiction by versels not bearing

Flag.

i.c. of offences committed

Mm

At the

same

time

I

as

have already pointed out in the Despatch above quoted withou= gennine cosperation on the part of the Chinese and Portuguese Governments, a disarming bidinance might have the effect of inviting attack on Chinese ressels leaving Stongkong Starbou and thus increasing instead of diminishing the crime of Puracy With regard to the supply of

བ་ཡི

Arms to the Chinese Rebels I beg to