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the

be required to lodge the import & export manifests with Consul, and the

owners

being

Keown, the half? You too would have no difficulty in obtaining the duties of

attempt them. I imagine

was made to endeavour

that if

too

Consulate was established we

a

Should

in

time see

built steamers &

foreign vessels

the

owned by Chinese frequenting the Harbours & rivers off Coast & thus largely

increase

the trade of Hong Kong, the descriptions Muchanstige

and the Squabbles & complaints, a perpetual appeals to the You ne, and certainly to the supreme & magistrial Courts, I am inclined therefore that both for political & social & economical reasons

to think

and

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two the accomplishment

and thus to the accomplishment

of the Madis proposition would

come to

Car

order of things disturbing existing

ly

the natural

& without

a condition.

At first probably great

& native

opposition would be exhibited

the Foreign Communities at Hongkong, and perhaps the Colonial

but I have no doubt

You

Our

Merchants would ultimately

1

ultimately

arrive at the conviction that the result was beneficial, and the enforcement of the payment of

by

the

duties

Chinese Traders is

the best guarantee for retaining

foreign

I

trade in their hands

t

increasing I have etc

(a) B. B. Robertson