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240 signatures, in which Seven days weekly work is
argued for
four numbered paragraphs.
It would
twenty
be alike tedious
to
your
lords hip
and unne
necessary
to discuss scriatim, as is done by our correspondents, these twenty four
arguments; but we would
venture
very respectfully to submit some
considerations.
why
the
general
prayer of the petitioners should not be granted
If
seven days weekly babour be necessary for successful trade in Hong Hong, it should be for trade in the United
equally
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Kingdom, in which the
of cargoes
ited by
07
Sundays
by act
of
of
thousands
se
working prohib
Parliament though labourers in London.
special religious
regard
4 Liverpool have
720
3.
regard for the Sunday
ap
483
the Lord's
Day; also for those Colonies with representative institutions in which
the popular vote has also prohibited
The
the Sunday working of cargoes ;
Presidency of Bombay cooties willing
also for
with its heathen
to work cargoes
who
on Sundays, but
are prevented doing.
40
by
the Bombay Government Order of 1882, which charges.
"a permit " to do
has been now
Yong; ports of
arrd
A
fee for such work, as
enacted
at Hong,
also in the Treaty
Heather thing. Hong Kong is not
Chinese possession but Colony,
British
ов
& it should be governed
What is good.
by British laws.
brown
x
the
for every other possession
good for a Colony.
Crown is
What
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