102
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
Corresponding to No.,
Corresponding to No.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetical, i.e.
English List
broken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Class XVII--All foreign rice, and other grain, Duty Free
35
SHIPPING DUES. These have hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships' length and breadth, at so much per ton; but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charge according to the registered statement of the number of tons of Cargo the Ship may carry. On each ten tons (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tons,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mace is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly dues, &c., are to be abolished.
Taoukwang, 33rd year, 8th Month, day. (July
L.S.
L.S.
of
the Supt.
Guy.Genl.
of
the
Two Kwang
Treasures
L.S.
High
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1849.)
L.S.
Governor
Canton
in Alphabetical, i.e.
English List.
Rattan ware, rattan and bamboo work
Sandal-wood ware
44
49
Class IV--Imported Sundries.
19
Wints
Gold and Silver ware, formerly divided into
Mother of Pearl shells
20
Bullock's and Buffalo's Horns
Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned
Class XV--Imported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c.
26
Sea otter skins
30
Gold ware, and Silver ware
51
Tortoise shell ware
58
Class V--Imported Dried Meats, &c.
ARTICLES.
30
Fox skins, large and small
Leather Trunks and Boxes
59
Class VII--Exported Woods, Canes, &c.
Canes or walking sticks of all kinds
10
Bird's nests, 1st quality cleaned
Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling
do., uncleaned
3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do., black
2nd do., white
5
Tiger, Leopard, and Martin skins
Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skins
Beaver skins
39
39
30
RD
D
ARTICLES.
5
Hare, Rabbit, and Ermine skins
+1;
Sea Horn Tued)
39
4
Class VIII--Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen do., Silk and Satin do., and Velvet do.
Boots and Shoes, whether of leather, Satin, or otherwise
Elephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole
17
Shark's fins, 1st do., white
2nd do., black
38
2
J7
38
Stock Fish and dried fish
42
15
Fish maws, not formerly in the Tariff
16
48
Class VI.--Imported Painter's Stores.
Class IX--Exported fabrics of Cotton, &c.
Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen
Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly in the Tariff)
Cochineal Smalls
10
1+
27
Sapan Wood
46
Class VII.--Imported Woods, Canes, &c.
34
Class X--Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk,
Rattans
Ebony
40
Raw Silk, of any province
46
Coarse or Refuse of Silk
46
Organzine of all kinds
40
All other imported woods--as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent. ad valorem.
Silk Ribbon and Thread
46
Silk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap,
Class VIII--Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry.
lustre strings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins
46
Clocks
Watches
+3
A
Silk and Cotton mixed fabrics
47
Telescopes
Heretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished.
Glass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds
20
ARTICLES.
Writing Desks
8
Class XI--Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c.
Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c., &c.
35
Dressing Cases
S
Jewellery of Gold and Silver,
8
Cutlery, Swords, &c.
Class XII--Exported Preserves, &c.
ARTICLES.
Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds
43
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53
56
of the same description, 5 per cent. ad valorem.
All the foregoing, and any other miscellaneous articles
Class IX--Gold and Silver Bullion, and Specie. Duty Free
44
Sugar Candy, all kinds
Tobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all kinds
Class XIII--All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five per cent.
Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver. Duty Free.
Class XV--Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials. Duty Free.
Class I--Imported Oilman's Stores, &c.
ARTICLES.
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetical &
English List.
Wax, Bee's wax
Rose Malves
2
Cambrics and Muslins
Cotton yarn, and Cotton thread
Linen--fine--not formerly in the Tariff
Banting
All other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, coarse linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c., &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Class X--Imported Cotton, fabrics of Cotton, &c.
Canvas
Cotton
9
12
Lug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and inferior fine Cotton cloth
13
13
Cottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &c., formerly classed as coarse long cloth
13
Twilled Cottons, grey
13
Chintz and Prints, of all kinds
13
14
27
47
Class XI--Imported fabrics of Woollen, Silk, &c.
36
Saltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the Government
Handkerchiefs, large
13
Subult
13
37
Soap.
41
Gold and Silver thread, superior or real
inferior, or imitation
28
23
Class II--Imported Spices, and Perfumes.
Broad Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c.
+7
Gum Benzoin and Oil of ditto
Narrow Cloths, as Long Ells, Cusemeres, &c., &c.
47
Sandal Wood
45
ARTICLES.
Pepper
All other articles, of this Class not included in the Tariff
to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent.
Perfumery
Class III--- Imported Drugs.
32
Camlets (Dutch)
47
Camlets
47
Imitation Camlets or bombazettes
47
5 per cent.
Woollen yarn
SP
Blankets
4.7
All other fabrics of wool or of mixed wool and silk,
wool and cotton, &c., &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Camphor Baros (or Maley), 1st quality, or cleaned;
formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor,
1
Class XII--Imported Fruits, Preserves, Spirits, &c.
Wine and Beer, in quart bottles
45
C
Cloves, 1st quality (picked)
2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor
in pint bottles
in cask
45
45
G
and quality (Mother Cloves)
7
Class XIII, Imported Metals.
ARTICLES.
Cow Bezoar
Cutch
Gambier
15
Copper, manufactured as in pigs,
30
10
manufactured as in sheets, rods, &c.
30
21
Brass out
Iron, manufactured as in pigs.
30
Ginseng, 1st quality or Cleaner
3
manufactured as in bars, rods, &c.
30
22
2nd do., refuse or Ginseng beard
Lead, in pigs, or manufactured
30
Gom Olibanum
22
Steel, manufactured
30
24
Tin
30
Myrrh
24
Mace, or Flower of Nutmeg
Tin plates, not formerly in the Tariff
30
Mercury, or Quicksilver
Nutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned
Zud
do., uncleaned
Putchuck
Rhinocero's Horns
23
38
All other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not
herein enumerated, 10 per cent. ad valorem.
RI
31
Class XI--Imported Jewellery.
ARTICLES.
33
Cornelians
11
28
Cornelian Beads
(A note abstract--reference numbers to the Alphabetic List being inserted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having been carefully compared and found correct.)
(Signed)
J. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter.
RICHARD WOOSNĀM,
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VICTORIA, May
LATEST DATES.
UNITED STATES Apl. 15
CALORRA July 4
BOMBAY
MAURITIUS May 11
SINGAPORE August 2
JAVA July 29
MANILA August 15
CRESUS August 1
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1843.
In our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS, from whose labours we anticipate much benefit to the sanitary condition of the town.
When the Lands and Roads Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventured to say (File No. 2.) "We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing some general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we think are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfere no further with one's right to manage one's own property, than is necessary to protect the health of the community."
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843.
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The duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent., and Lord Congleton states that three-fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter, of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports
Bafy Committee in 1840, that 48 per Cent. of the
It has been lately Notified by PROCLAMATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that between the hours of eight and ten P.M. they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock P.M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future, be permitted to go out, under any consideration, unless he can produce a pass in English, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A PROCLAMATION has also been issued by the Chief Magistrate prohibiting, under penalty of severe punishment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at one o'clock P.M., and until Gun-fire at day light on the following morning.
W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
AS OVERLAND MAIL to England via Bombay, per "Petrel" will be closed at this Office, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P.M.
A Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per "City of Palaces" will also be closed at 3 P.M., on Wednesday, the 30th instant.
POST OFFICE,
Victoria, 20 August, 1843.
Still we would recommend the immediate covering up of the fetid drains which now give forth the most deleterious miasma.
Lord Congleton (late Sir Henry Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total annual cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement, and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences.
The total charge for collecting and protecting the customs and excise revenues of the United Kingdom, was £2,300,613 in the year 1840.
The present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and 1st and 2nd of William IV, Cap. 13.
We have only space to enable us to refer to the Government Notification with respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would expect, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony.
In London it was remarked that fever was constantly engendered in localities destitute of underground Sewage, and by a map of the Sewers it was shown by Dr. Southwood Smith, that one could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.
We are not surprised at the wording of Lord Stanley's despatch, seeing that in the last Crown Colony which had been established, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant jobbing, and peculation by almost every member of that colonial Government (vide No. 48.)
The FRIEND OF INDIA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opium monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds "this source of revenue is continued to India for fifteen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out."
Our readers well know, that there does not exist even a suspicion, of similar conduct on the part of the officials here--this we have often had occasion to say, as a valid argument for losing no longer time, in giving the holders title to their lands.
By the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the leaf of the Tea plant without first submitting it to any process of manufacture, further than sun drying. It is thought by the Shippers that this Tea will, admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose thorough acquaintance with our best interests, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it is wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Tariff promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all probable ministers would propose a reduction on any kind or sort of Tea, which should not be equally applicable to Tea sent from hence.
There was much delay, and as many doubts and misgivings about the Commercial Treaty, as have ever existed with respect to the Land Regulations. We have stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously disappointed by the promulgation of a Tariff of unprecedented liberality and of immense national value. Hence we have every confidence that the final adjustment of the Land Claims, and their future tenure, will afford as much satisfaction as will the announcement of the Commercial Treaty to his gratified countrymen at home.
We have only to examine the Tariff of any country to know if smuggling is practised; and if a bad system of commercial policy has been long pursued, there the smuggler will be found.
The exports to Gibraltar from England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly 'jutes, reduced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port.
The total amount of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to exceed £800,000 exclusive of Tobacco, cargoes of which are extensively introduced from the French bonding warehouses into England.
We would refer the reader to our abstract of the latest Legislative enactment with regard to Crown Lands (the 5th and 6th of Victoria, Cap. 36) which we think, and still think, that Act will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is fortified by Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein exhibited, and when the alterations were suggested he said "It was a system which he would be sorry to see interfered with, or principle departed from." His opinion was decidedly opposed to any such course, as was proved by its introducing a Bill, which became an Act last session, which expressly barred the Crown from interfering with the system.
ORION. August 21st, 1843.
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