5

363

Jaels per chest.

H.

insisto

The Vice Roy's Proclamation howwer

apparently

tamped tickets for Opium carried in

the

the place of Export and, from enclosed chinese map forwarded by

bonoul Robertson, Your Grace

perceive that one

will ett

of those stations

near Noulson within

on the purchase of the

Enclosure No.2.

{

any repels to the Reaky Parts of bantin

penalty of

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illegal squeeze of

the nearest

and Swatow and, under a

Confiscation, imposes 1,16 Jailo

Carned

Jom

chest of opium

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every

5.

that tax is one

entirely

new, and

the chinese Goverment, titing achantage of the peculiar Geographical position of Hongkong,

endeavors to exact this new

taxe not by guarding :preventing the improper banding of Opium, but by establishing

it's own coasts and

а

line

of

Customs Houses round this Harbor-

British Territory-

a

mile

of

and I miles-, not ten

or twelve as stated in the map, from

point of

this

city.

Another

station at the Lyemoon Pass is within

a

few hundred yards of Birlish Watero- whilst,

as the enclosed letter

bustore We from the Homlar Master sheur,

....ом

Harbor here is made the medium of

communication between the

Customs Posts by the Arment

different

vepelo

and

do. Therefore,

as it now stands,

the

Officers of the Chinese Government.

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