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cessels should Aeep a general look out acumet smugglers

Mr Heart had detailed for duly at euch Station in Hwang Bang Revenue Cruizers- despatch had been sent to the Commissioner of Customs at Counter (by

Mz Hart ) to get them ready, suggesting that Mr. Brown the Afpichal Commissioner of Customers be placed in entire charge of them: He would be glad too if

the Hop

No popo

more

would send ten or

honest and trustworthy clerks, and also three shroffs who had been in Bank employ to attend to the work required.

He considered that if the

proposed scheme were

adopted the necessary expenses per mouth would

be about ten thousand talls, while

there would be an increase

of

between fowe and five hundred thousand taels in the

year

derived

from the collection of the regular

duty

ov

o fiium .

This despatch the Foreign

Office referred to the Board of Revenue with a request

would muste enquiries

and it

A V x s

en

that it

the subject,

accordingly ascertained by the Found that Hong song and Macas were the two great

dépoto for

the

ofimm

C.

that

came

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