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in
such a locality from such a population as that of Hong Kong. This System appears
also to have been adopted
with Success at
at Singapore
and to have yielded a
ample
Revenue without
substantially
the trade
To the other License
and
conseremption duties,
are collected
as not to hold out too
strong
inducement
to illicit importation &
manufacture, and to the assessment of reasonable Fees on Judicial
proceedings
and I conceive
that the ground
which
you assign for exacting
a moderate due
from
the quarries of Stone fully justify
that
as stated in
your Despatch dated 29th June last,
allusion is made
to
proposed duty of $5 per Cent upon the
proceeds of Sales by