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jurisdiction establishing Custom "Houses," showing that he considered

the proposed

Vice Roy's Proclamation.

507

measure

of

the Vice Roy.

of

In pointing out the nature of the error into which the Governor has

in the

to be intended to protect the revenues of

the Province from the frauds of "Chinese subjects sailing under the Chinese Flag." It does not appear that Mr Consul Robertson communicated to the Governor of Hongkong the purport of the Vice Roy's despatch of February 28., and evidently from

evidently from the want

of Governor of HongKong has misapprehended the purport of Sir Rutherford Alcock's despatch, as well as the true scope of the Vice Roy?

some such communication the

of HongKong

fallen

absence of more complete information

than he seems to have been

furnished with, I am desired by your Lord Stanley to request that you will call the Duke of Buckingham's

Earl of, attention to the fact that, in the

the Colonial Secretary.

Letter

of

of HongKong of July 10., acknowledging Mr Consul Robertson's despatch of July 6, no request is made for any farther information, and the observations of the Secretary.