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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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