CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867 — Page 270

Age

268

be relivined after perusal.

Of the

Course

You

offering

took in

obstacle to the action

of the Chinese Customs in this

matter, I have already approved,

altho' I felt with

you

at the time.

that it would have been more pakis

: factoms if the first time, so heavy

penathj

ivão

inflicted the vessel

had been caught in the act of trading. The plea set up by the

defendant

ivas

a

very plausible

one and had it been suskrined by

evidence I have

no doubt you

would

have suggested a mitigation of Penattyy. The

owner

declares

observe

observe, that his steamer

chartered by

by a

AAAD

Chinese Merchant

well known to him, who hired

it for the declared purpose of

a

lowing up from the west coast

disabled funk and that being imatile to find the funk at the point intimated the Chanterers Agent who accomparmed the shumer xpplied

for the

bin b

which

AD

Mal

CA

of

С

boat to take

town called Ther-hung

situated

up

a river. This

the maske declined to grant for the

reason that

looking vessels

a

mumber of piratical

dvere

looking about

but the Master actuated by the

desire

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