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documents it is seen that some merchants
of Hongkong having intended to export Gunpowder to Mavau and having ..... obtained the nee
nexessary clearance from
were, notwithstanding
the Port of Honghong, -prevented from realizing their trade by the Employes of the Chinese Customs.
· Against this abuse
on the part of the
Chinese fiscal authorities they appealed
a
port of China in which the importation
of munition of War into China. subject to very
striet regulations.
are
I cannot believe that the
newspaper mentioned above or those who made the cited publication would have transcribed a fictitious document
accepting it as official and from indisputable authority: I should therefore believe,
to
Your Exelleney
and it is seen
that
that, as published, it
to this appeal the Secretary to the Government replies, by order of Your Excellency, saying that the Government of that Colony consider it impossible to interfere in respect to the importation of Gunpowder into Macau because the Canton Authorities consider Maçan as
·
which
svas
the
answer
Your Excellency directed to be
given to the petitioners who represented
against the arbitrariness of the Imperial. -fiscal authorities.
Believing it to be so, and until I
make it known to
my Government, 9 cannot but state to Your Excellency --
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