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Sir,

Ang 1.1874.

I have the hot to acquaint you

that on the rest of yt desp. N: 12

of the 624

of July having reference

to the estabimt

a brauch of,

of the imp? Chinese Maritime Customs at the Colony

of Singkong,

as a

remedy for the allegest evils attending the present mode adopted by the Chinese goot of collecting duties on the funk trace of the Colony by surrounding it with dutif Stations & guard boats & proceeded at once to Hongkong had an interview with Sir a Kennedy, & laid fully before him the contents of oft desp, & in reply &. 8. said that the matter had been for long F. Wade Eraft CB.

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