CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8] — Page 543

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CRINGEN.

6

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and the value of the junk to the brown, the former giving every facility for Courts of Law.

6. An owner discretion that would enable them to reduce the penalty amount, at the very moment that I have begun to enforce it. appeal to the

7. Remembering that violations of the Ordinance of 1866 had been notoriously taking place week after week for the last few years by organized bands of smugglers and yet that the law breakers had been subjected to no punishment or check of any kind. I confess I should be sorry to give the local Magistrates, who had so long neglected to vindicate the laws of Hongkong in this matter, any simple as the proposed alteration of the law may appear, it would tend to revive the smuggling I have so far succeeded in

8. putting down. I therefore intend instructing the Attorney General to strike out the proposed alteration; before he introduces the Merchant Shipping Bill.

9. I may add that not a single merchant of any kind has urged ... trader

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CRINGEN. 6 ช 533 and the value of the junk to the brown, the former giving every facility for Courts of Law. 6. An owner discretion that would enable them to reduce the penalty amount, at the very moment that I have begun to enforce it. appeal to the 7. Remembering that violations of the Ordinance of 1866 had been notoriously taking place week after week for the last few years by organized bands of smugglers and yet that the law breakers had been subjected to no punishment or check of any kind. I confess I should be sorry to give the local Magistrates, who had so long neglected to vindicate the laws of Hongkong in this matter, any simple as the proposed alteration of the law may appear, it would tend to revive the smuggling I have so far succeeded in 8. putting down. I therefore intend instructing the Attorney General to strike out the proposed alteration; before he introduces the Merchant Shipping Bill. 9. I may add that not a single merchant of any kind has urged ... trader
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CRINGEN. 6 ช 533 and the value of the junk to the brown, the former giving every facility for Courts of Law. 6. an owner discretion that would enable them to reduce the penalty amount, at the very to a nominal moment..... that I have begun to enforce it. appeal to the 7. Remembering that violations of the Ordinance of 1866 had been notoriously taking place week week the last after for few years by organized bands of smugglers and yet that the law breakers had been subjected to no punishment or check of any kind. I confess I should be sorry to give the local Magistrates, who had so to long neglected to vindicate the laws of Hongkong in this matter, any Simple as the proposed alteration of the law- may appear, it would tend to revive the sminggling I have so far succeeded in 8. putting down. I therefore intend instrusting the Attorney General to strike out the proposed alteration; before he introduces the Merchant Shipping Bill. 9. not a single I may add that - merchant of any kind has urged لاق trader
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CRINGEN.

6

ช

533

and the value of the junk to the

brown,

the former

giving every facility for

Courts of Law.

6.

an

owner

discretion that would enable them

to reduce the

penalty

amount, at the

very

to

a nominal

moment.....

that I have begun to enforce it.

appeal to the

7.

Remembering that

violations of the Ordinance of 1866

had been notoriously taking

place week

week

the last

after for few years by organized bands of smugglers and yet that the law breakers had been subjected to no punishment or check of any kind. I confess I should

be

sorry

to

give

the local

Magistrates, who had so

to

long

neglected to vindicate the laws of Hongkong in this matter,

any

Simple

as the

proposed alteration of the law-

may appear, it would tend to revive the sminggling

I have so

far succeeded in

8.

putting down.

I therefore intend instrusting the Attorney General

to strike out the proposed alteration; before he introduces the Merchant Shipping Bill.

9.

not a

single

I may add that -

merchant

of any kind has urged

لاق

trader

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