4
are
meditating at this
Coment their demeval
te Canton
or Macaq, or
the northeme Tests.
viz:
One or two (Sbelieve)
Messrs Rawson & lo and Mess?! Boustead
vlo
re gone already.
Now I think this taxe is
very likely to influence.. others, not from its amount, but from the trouble it entails, and the principle
it involves, and that the
absence of any one of the leading Firms would-
carry with it a great many
of the minor ones.
or
these
It is
e grounds Saveuld
dissuade from this tax,
as
339
well as from all other taxes of a similar
description for the present; have given
and until we
maturity and strength -to the Colony, by allowing
the inhabitants to take Root under all the advantages of the most liberal protection . If Sam told that taxes of
a
similar nature.
are
levied at Singapore, which
is also a free port, then's would ask how
or at what peried
2001-
rea
taxation of this kind
made part of the policy of that settlement
Looking
at the taxe
a j