Boa ol Tra EN sold there several. English vessels have brought cargoes of salt from the East coast of China, and sold them in this colony. An English merchant is at present occasionally engaged in the Salt trade here.
It is stated that the Auction Duty prevents damaged goods arriving in ships being landed at Hong Kong; extensive vendors of such goods; (Messrs. Jardine Matheson) cannot sell goods; the assertion is therefore correct.
The value of Goods sold at Auction in 1847, on which duty was payable, amounted to £23,154. and of those subject to the duty £10,200. The Government has never levied any revenue whatever from sale by Auction. At Appendix A, No. 2 of the supplementary minutes of Council will be found an exemption from Auction duty in favour of goods damaged by shipwreck.
This exemption has been invariably construed to extend to all goods damaged by salt-water; and Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. have been selling goods from places of ill fame. In the year 1845, in consequence of the prevailing prevalence of disease and sickness in that part of the town called Tai-ping-shan, which has been notorious since the establishment of the Colony for deeds of violence and disorder, it was considered desirable, either to endeavour to drive away altogether the Females who
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