riott of my sim International
similar vuolation of usage being
9.
CH
soon
repeated.
8. At the same time I think Your Space will
aque
with
me
in con
considering
of
it highly important in the interesto
this bolony, and with
a view to preserving friendly relations with the Chinese lovernment. a task incompatible with the establishment of a permanent blockade of this harbor, that provisions should be introduced
into
any
revised
Treaty of Tientan
rendering imposible seizures like that referred to, and also declaring illegal mere proclamations forbidding a repel to ship dutiable articles in a
Foreign Port,
unles with a Tennit obtained first hom the Chinese Customs.
I
is not too much to expect of
the Chinese Government that it should
lake
efficient
measures
for collecting bustoms duties at the Ports of arrival, whulst anything like seizure of vefaelo
clearing hence the moment they get outside of the harbor should be
definitely prohibited. If the Chinese bustoms Officers
are once allowed to
derive emoluments on
such source, an
H
any pretext from opportunity would be afforded of "squeezing", and annoying
all repels clearing from here in such
a
that the present extensive traffic
carried on in bhinese bottoms with
this leclony would re long be ammilulated.
Even as the Treaty
10.
now stands the