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Manila, August 11th 1876.
I have the honour to inform Your
Lordship that many disadvantages are... experienced by the British mercantile community of this place ouing to the portal regulations in
between this Country and Honghong.
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A reference to these rules will serve to explain this matter.
Firstly, Letters posted at Manila, for England, pay, and the payment is compulsory, to the spanish Govemment a postage at the the half ounce. on reaching Hong Kong
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rate of 25 cents
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the same letters are again charged with a pootage from thence to England: Lence letters posted at Manita for England are subjected to a double,
rate of postage.
The Right Honble
The Earl of Clarendon, K.G.
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Foreign Office.
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