CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868 — Page 12

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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And those of the Maritime Powers would, it is presurned, be authorized to visit Junks to see if the Roilamaten had been complied with, and bring into a Chinese Port, for the purpose of

over to the handing Chinese Courts, any found infringing.

law.

Junk

the

The fear of this Perrally would no doubt operate.

on many

Traders and

they

they would sail withou heavy guns.

But the Pirates would

rum little or no additional

risk and they would. Carry their Guns as before.

be feared.

It

may

that the first result of

Proclamation such a

would be to deliver over the honest Grader, who obeayed the Law, without power of defence to his enemies. – What barbarous enemies they

are

the

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