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Land practice that there has been in Java no obstruction or delay counsel in carrying out the provisions of that Ordinance.

With reference to your letter regarding exemption in apparel, I was misled on the point that the contract voyage to Singapore only took six days.

Under the 3d section of Passenger Act 1855 of Hong Kong, the Governor is empowered to declare by Proclamation "What shall be deemed to be the length of passage from Hong Kong to Singapore".

Date: 1872 Oct 21

Last previous Paper: 40AZ 72.

(Subject) DOMESTIC.

125 Half yearly Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

(Minutes.)

By the Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships and by the Proclamations of 26 Jan. 1856 and 17 Feb. 1858, the length of passage from Hong Kong to Singapore is declared to be for Sailing ships 20 to 45 days, and for Steam vessels 10 to 16 days according to the monsoon.

The Company therefore can claim no exception either under the Imperial Act or the local Ordinance on the grounds suggested by you that the Contract time for the passage from Hong Kong to Singapore is less than 7 days.

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21st forwarding the General Balance sheet of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China to the Half Year ending 30th June 1872.

Page 125

Indexed: 77.22/10 239 P 23 Oct. 71.

Office No 10464

Office or Individual.

Chartered Mercantile Bank

... Mercantile Bank of India, London & China ...

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Land practice that there has been in Java no obstruction or delay counsel in carrying out the provisions of that Ordinance. With reference to your letter regarding exemption in apparel, I was misled on the point that the contract voyage to Singapore only took six days. Under the 3d section of Passenger Act 1855 of Hong Kong, the Governor is empowered to declare by Proclamation "What shall be deemed to be the length of passage from Hong Kong to Singapore". Date: 1872 Oct 21 Last previous Paper: 40AZ 72. (Subject) DOMESTIC. 125 Half yearly Statement of Assets and Liabilities. (Minutes.) By the Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships and by the Proclamations of 26 Jan. 1856 and 17 Feb. 1858, the length of passage from Hong Kong to Singapore is declared to be for Sailing ships 20 to 45 days, and for Steam vessels 10 to 16 days according to the monsoon. The Company therefore can claim no exception either under the Imperial Act or the local Ordinance on the grounds suggested by you that the Contract time for the passage from Hong Kong to Singapore is less than 7 days. I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21st forwarding the General Balance sheet of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China to the Half Year ending 30th June 1872. Page 125 Indexed: 77.22/10 239 P 23 Oct. 71. Office No 10464 Office or Individual. Chartered Mercantile Bank ... Mercantile Bank of India, London & China ... The final output is in HTML format as requested. I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "canging" to "carrying", "argages" to "passage", "acording" to "according"). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated missing words with `...` (e.g., "... Mercantile Bank of India, London & China ..."). 6. Formatted the text using HTML paragraphs (``) and line breaks (``) only when necessary. 7. Removed any unnecessary text, such as "songlong Cylon Mis!". 8. Kept the original "Page" information as it was, assuming it is part of the original scan metadata.
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