CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868 — Page 28

this Proclamation, will be a valuab

aid in the suppression of Piracy,

as it will Ewable A. M. Anizers

Chinese Fishing bettels

thould therefore

therefore be detained

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and

Learched for

arms,

only

where

to detail

and hand over

to the

there may

be a jessonable suspicion,

Chinese authorities

any Fishing

&esselo, suspected of committing

merely that they are

detokeyping

they

acts of Pira

Piracy,

which

may be found

with arues on board.

My Inds, however, direct that

H. M. Ships under your

not

occupy

orders thall

thecuselves in

Fishing

overhauling Chinese Fist

Vessels, in order to ascertan

whether they

are

carrying

asma

in disobedience of the Proclamation

not

the Proclamatiore, but that are vegaged

in Pratical acts-

this course might be usefully followed and without causing

any jealouty among Foreczen powers which might be reaited if they should be let to suppose that great Britain was

als

to charge of the Police of the

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chande