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he is

Zathers to be his real office required to account for no more gooohn, a fixed quota

than a

of the revenue derived from native trade. On foreign trade. of course this has not been possible since the institution of the Foreign Inspectorate at the port in 1859. Hence the violent opposition of the Hoppe to its Establmt

These are the only points of

dissidence & have been able to discover between & my own. The case in fact his your conclusions in small compass.. The merchants of the Colony desire removal of all interference with the junks whr. pass & repass between the Colony & the mainland. The Chinese Goot, its attention having been first attracted by the immense loss in opiume

The Junk

duties occasioned

Fraore with Honghong, is determined

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to secure the duties due to China

upon the

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junks

cargoes of these & so long

as the Chinese "Cruisers treep out of the waters

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The

Colony it wd be in vain _ were it

reasonable or

legally right-

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The

attempt the protection of Chinese funks as to the action "Chinese "Authorities whether on

The High Seas or along the Chinese Coast. -

that the

owweillance

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the authorities

is often unnecessarily inquisitorial vexations unjust I can

more doubt than

than a

and

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one

acquainted with the dealing of Chinese Collectivate in general, Neither is it possible to doubt that the subjection of the junk trade to native surveillance must restrict the proportions of that trace. I am bound however to say that on perusal of the Harbout Master's Reports last betover at Hongkong,

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