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om
board in the
waters with opium neighborhood of Hongtong
receipts shewing payment of
arbeitory
and without
a new and
taxe would be liable to be boarded.
searched and have the opium Confiscated.
There can
therefore be no question that any such provision controvence the privilege
scared by Treaty to Ferrignes of importing
Opium into
on
paying an
any open
Port in China and
it there the fixed Tariff duty
ی این کارگاه
30 Jaelo per picul (133415 Avoirdupois).
of
13. Me
may
mow
consider the
question
on the supposition that the proclamation
of the Vice: they is to be read as
applying to Chinese repels only. I am however told that such is not the case and the Johinese Cuthorities consider themselves
encouraged
by Her Majesty's Minister to include persons and repels sailing under Foreign
Alags":
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and certainly the latter are not excepted. Yet, wen if they were,
that
no Nation is entitled to
ن سعد متلة
Imaintain
require
even
subjects before shipping experts
from a neighboring friendly state, to pay
a taxe
com
such Exports. I believe the
better opinion to be that each State bound in its
owm
is
waters and along its
own shares to take the nerepary steps
печерапротеро
for preventing the illicit banding of joods
whether by then
own
Subjects
others
what
frando
and I have yet to learn on
Į
is
the Chinese Government is to be relieved from a trouble cund expense imposed on
other civilized Nations and be upheld
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