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which confirmed to British Subjects all privileges

on them

immunities and advantages conferred by previous heakes, consequently re-affirined the guarantee given m' Captam Elliotó

Proclamation that the action

of the t

Revenue Collectorates now placed (mi Chinese) Territory) at ponits east west and south of the Colony, and of the Revennie Cruisers

under the orders of the Supermitendent of

avo

Customs, the Hoppo, he is commonly called, which interferes prejudicially with the trade of the punks frequenting the Colony, is in violation of the privileges guaranteed by lapton Elliot, and so long tacitly recognised by the Chinese Government; that the proceedings of the Revenue Cruisers in particular, which only scour the waters beyond the limits of our Colony's piriadiation.

not

but

watch

watch the junk. trade m` our

harbour, are,

own

if not illegal, at variance

with the usage of nations, the vessels

m' question

not

being,

ao

sometimes

pretended, vessels belonging to the Chinese Navy,

not

benig

even vessels commissioned

by the Government of China, but vessels

employed merely under the authority of the Hoppo. It

It was

urged, lastly, that the

surveillance by these vessels of the junk hade

of the Colony

was

the

mov vexationo mas much

as it involved the Co-operation of Chinese detectives who had their head quarters on shore; while, in the harbour, the presence of the Revenue Cruisers had been in some molanzes

taken advantage of by persons suspected of crime who by alleging that they belonged to the Revenue Service, had forled ther Colonial Police engaged in pursuit of them

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