b.
reparation contending himself with tionsmithing a report of the Salt Commisioner i which repat alwat pretended to justify | the outrage, and that I efsentially differed.)
· frau Corsul Robertson, who had offered that report as satisfactory.
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I have in point of fact been from the first sensitively alive to the risk to
which the interests of this Colony
exposed, if at
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would be
time the Chinese Customs
Arichonties were to about a right of
exaurining and searching the native vesels which frequent
on harbor, or their leaving
and praping site the adjoining
waters.
Chinese
Upwards of 22,800 trading Junthe (2,095,194 tons) cleared from this harbor last
year,
carge
More
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than 18,000 of those vesels having
an board :. Now, when I fav Grace
considers the class of officus employzed by the Chinese to collect their Customs Revenue,
men ra
rapacious and mundacions to the last degree, you may form a faint idea of the
terror with which such
would be received as
ann
that
annonament
A
network of
to be set round this
Custans stations
harbor, so that
every
native vessel leaving
of those
it would have either to visit one
Stations
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be searched by a Revere vefat.
I will refer (for Grace lo-Paras 26-
C
Video abor Grauer and 26 of my despatch Map of last April
also to Jocs of State 1•J«} Nongle of 14 Nov
1861 in which I endeavored to
412 of 14 December, 1808.7
convey
some)
slight conception of the results of such a
system
Thu
CanmereV
of this Colony.
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