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年
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the Salt Comptroller's Report- desuiting
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investigation held by an Official Wang, khering, toung", who had motituted
inquiries
at the Sin. Ngan. City He re
14. The report explains how it had
been customary to depend for levy of
revenue an au
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and collect the awears due on Salt
"Wanants".
15.
The Report then attempts to shew that in view of the amity subsisting
between the tivo Countries it is
only right that "Commercial transactions should
the Salt
fishing warrants to
be freely
carred an
without restriction as
R
be
granted as permits for the
for
and that
d
carrying salt for uning fish to te. at
then
доль
to state that
many
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dishonestly disposed fishermen take frefuge at Tytam. Aberdeen. Tote that
is, are so audacious as
to reside at
Hongkong where some of their ancestors
have lived for the last century-
the bontractor "has
It
so that
no alternative but
to dispatch his cluk to proceed to sea
to place or papage to and fro".
buisers maintained by the Salt Department
are
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merely employed to collect by stishermen and cannot be
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with such
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e-cs.es
as cuisers.
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due
compared
infringing
the boundary in pursuit of smugglers "Pivates te qe.
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16. The Report details the evidence
some
and
of
fishumen- who had been compelled
to submit to this "Commercial transaction
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