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of the regular duty at the entrances to the different ports, that on the waters immediately outside Hong Hong
and Haarac
ever
collected;
AIO
inte had been
duty
There was murcover a distinction
–
drawn between the live methods of:
Litton and by the
laration big regular duty, so that he feared combination of the lesser tax with the greater, would prove beneficial mither to the (Chimere ) mercanters or foreign interests.
The memorialists perceive that the regular duties affecting
affecting as they do the revenue
of the country,
fixed in amount and it is
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difficult to maste any
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alterations
in them. The Listin on the other hand is an ex
expedient for meeting
merely temporary requirements, and from time to time be altered with ease.
Now as far
may
the merchants
are concerned, the traffic in opium in which they engage suffices to show that they
not afraid
Ave
to contribute towards the Revenues what may
m di
may be required, it making difference whether they pay
regular duty
Fixin
or
Life
:regular duty, however, is fired while the Tistin is not se,
and it might happen that the
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