CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 55

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to drive them from the

I submit for your

recommended to

I shall for the on

While the

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be adopted in these artides, would directly tend to repress privacies on Chinese Junk's, they do not, in opinion, louch the greater wil of

American or European

piracies upon vessels; these being

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at the present

day, allacked with canners;

but are.

invariably boarded in calms, light

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dier, or at aucher, and over

pavereds

by numbers, with strip pols, pistols, Kels, and frequently in the

and

very

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говенко)

entrance of the Ports, open to trade,

sohere the expeditions

to originate.

b.

may

said

With this miw of the subject,

wsideration,

As

carsideration of the

United Staliz Minister at Peking, the following propositions in addition to those offered by yourself and which

are now under review.

Whenever a piratical act shall

have been commilled upon an-Amaican)

d

Luncheon built vessel, (moned by an

Americans

Emopian), wishin the ly

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nautical miles of the coast of China,

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of Chinese dependencies, except such wichin ihre nautical miles

recurring

of the Island of Hongkong or of the part of Macao, the losses of property

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sustarired by such piratical act arts shall be defrayed by, and

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