CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8] — Page 659

I think the Governor of Rong Kony should have submiltec this Memorial for verification

Report to the

and for a Report Registrar General.

I do not believe that

Chinese Merchants in the Colony

would, of their

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accord,

venting to stigmatize in such terms the action or inaction of the British Loverment and its officers, and much less the conduct of Mandarins.

Meir

The Chamber of Commerce

make several startting statimenty

They say

that the

Hopps" pockets" a profit on

has

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his farming of the Revenne by means of armed vessels,

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of several millions of " a great proportion of which

they have no hesitations in

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"saying" is obtained by extortion and unjustifiable means. That besides the Hoppo's vessels the Colony is blockaded by the vessels War Fort, of the Collector of (Likin) and those of the Salt Lux Collector and the Peny Choo Hor Wurstemmer

under that command of a

British subject, supervises

the whole system.

They refer (paragraph 5)