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enforcing the penal clauses of Itinance 1.6571866 against the Cawleys and Criminal class uns had been in the habit of clearing from Houghtons after night. fall with contraband Cargoes of Grimm and Saltsetre for the

Mainland.

2.

Curtain Kornsett the

Harbour Master, and Mr Cecil C. Smith the Registrar General, had previously excreped the Osinion, in their official reports to Sir Arthur Kennedy, that the interference of the Chinese Revenue Cruisers was destroying

the Junk trake of the Colony, and they assured me that if I began

to

put

the penal clauses of

Ordinance 1.6 of 1855 in force

the Junk trade would cirionely decline still further.

3.

I have however the

extracting

satisfaction of now for your Ordadie's information

the following figures from the Harbour Master's Returns us to the 31st of December 1877 from which it is clear that the legitimate Junk trade of the Colony has been steadily increasing whilst I have been putting