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already
been
large
deduction from the monthly license
fees conditional on
from the houses of all fees had
the complete exclusion
Foreigners. These
reduced
from $21,000
to $13000 per month and
I
calculated that
future
probably $10,000 would be ample in
under the above restriction.
13.
In the meantime, however, owing to
a
disagreement
between the Licensees and
Some of their employes as to the division
120,070
ha
impression that the Licensees had obtained
during
their monopoly for a year and not
numerous tenders from the
good behavior
most respectable
and we
wealthy
Why Chinese
sent in
offering large
annual
wvere
Sums from
$200,000 to $260,000 for the privileges
enjoyed by the Licensees. One of the most
Solvent Chinese Merchants here
offered
aud
yet pay
an
Foreigners fee of $240,000.
exclude all
annual
of profits, which were
Mil"
according to a
14.
previous examination of their books by the
Auditor General, I found
reason to suspect
that so fur from losing they had been
mathing four larger quins them there was
ground for conceding to them
any
and
reasonable
they admitted the fact whilst under the
to the mp i both wit,
me.
to
I own this result greatly surprised"
but not so much so as the fact, that although one of the standing regulations
Ĺ
что
busines
from the first had been that was to be transacted with the Licensees except through the medium of the Register General. the abject being to prevent
even the