CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8] — Page 19

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· fovigners engaged in the cookie

trade- but as suitable avan

avangements

could not be contluded with sufficient speed, the whole were beheaded . The circumstance is well known to one or more

Carman

missionaries now resident here.

10. Your Petitioner than fore serges

that as lomitorial righte responsibilities as well as

involve

foriviledges.

life

and property.

and whilst

seeking protection from the pination junks which meanaced her. And Your Petitioner further cerges

that

such a sudden measure as the

Seizene is not the proper way

to prohibit a trade, which has been allowed to be carried let or hinderance for above twenty

years .

M

on withing

17. Your Petitioner therefore

it is contrary

to

all reason,

that

prays

as the Goverment of this

Hony granted him a

the Imperial authorities should

select - such a mode of commencing

isdiction over a

the excercise of jurisdiction district they had for many years

abandoned, as is involved in seizure of the Prince Albert,

the

whilst engaged

on any Anand;

Saving

for its object the soming of Chinese

Register

for his steamer on terms which

he has

has in .

Mo

way

violated - as

Colony

the interests of the

liable to be inferred by

are

impered by such an

unjust put as that of which he complains - and as

he is

delaned from all source of