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Suederstpitu
The Chinese Customs and the Guu - -Powder Trade to Macao
To His Excellency John pope obennessy,
6.M. G. Governor of Hong Hong and it dependencies se si, se.
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The humble petition of the undersigned -merchauk currying on business in the Colony of theagh That your pekkoners are merchaub
Hong Mong Theweth _ resident and carreping on business in the colony of Hong Hong, and in the course of ouch busiest have been in the habit for many years past and up to a recent period, of selling quuporoder to Chicese for shipment to Macao, such quepowder being much in request at that place for the purpose of manufacturing crackers and other-fire. That within the · past six months officer of the. Chinese Customis sewice have adopted a septue of boarding and perching Chinese craft clearing prom Honghong to that port within a short "distance of Hong Hong, and if gunpowder be found on board compelling the return to that. play of such craft under a threat of the seizure and confiscation of the vessel if the command, so -made be not complied with. These practices your petitioners believe are not wholly unwarranted, but are absoluckly at variance with the existing
treakes between the Chinese and the British.
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