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system, might be extended to
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must suffer,
-suffer, and struggling be promoted, by secrecy
Commerce
Articles
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mcx Franchises of shopping & Shopping marketing, as subservients.
to the purposes at once of Clonomes
and Police – Or heavier direct taxation :
– A
more equitable, British rule, would be lighter to the
Chinese than their
th
Sales
the addition of irregular "agunzing": Your Lordship mentioned grounds-Cuts and - rents (with the addition perhaps of Land, of the produce of Sales of Land in fee simple) as a productive
of Revenue. Sineapore,
source.
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already observed, yields considerable income in judicial fees and fines
I have premised all these
various sources of income, under the obvious impression that
Fees &
trade. direct duty upon articles of rake.
objection
present exemplars,
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Sincapore, our foreign trade flourishes rapidly
as a
free port.
A duty on Chinese Exports would
be a tax
on
the Consumer at
at home; and
are on
English.
Imports would be in addition to the Chinese duty. As regards
Tea, it seems
worthy of
a brief consideration how far it might
be possible to lessen the home
duty on
the lowest (say Black)
Tea, to 1/6, or 1/-.
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increased
trade will be required to
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provide returns for Exports from hence; and the lately diminished duties on Coffee and Chocolate operate,