Price Charged.
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A Statement of the prices of the principal articles of provisions as charged to the Foreign Community by the Compradors at Canton in the year, 1840; viz.
Articles.
7.
@per 1/3 the
1/4
Bread
Beef.
Mutton
Prices charged
charged
1⁄2 #long
B
each.
Cabbages
Carrots.
Flour.
Fowls
Given under my seal of office at Hong Kong, this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year 1842.
Signed Newry Pottinger
ILS
By the Chief Superintendent charged with the Government.
Signed & Not Morrison.
Acting Secretary and Treasurer
A true Copy
List of Prices in the Central Market Hongkong-
Articles
Catty
Gar Candy in Powder.
Do
Your.
Bee
fowl-
Mite Rice.
Northern
Vaisius
vioves.
White peas
17's th
Lettuce.
Milk Mutton
Quiave
Pork & Porkfat.
Potatoes.
Rice.
suct
Sugar (coarse) - Do- (fine)
sweet potatoes
Yanie-
The prices are
12
02
the quart
18
Catty
160
02.
16
12
106
$
Picul
2
Pecul
quoted in Spanish Dollars and Cents. The picul is 133 1/3 lbs; and the catty is 1 1/3 lbs avoirdupois; but the Catty weights of the Compradors generally exceed an English Pint.
seldom
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