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the pays

of Opium evading 1 payment of duly imported into Awarz Dung

very large, and that though

your vesels

wvere

stationed at Canton

to seize smugglers and to protect the revenue, get that they

Avero!

insufficient for the purpose.

that migh

Do the objection

be made that the proposed methed

of collecting, the

pinon duty would

be prejudicial, to the interests of the merchants, what other method could,

Mr Hart arrange?

That with the co-operation

I sin and others real advantages

of due and

might be

reaped and evils done

away with, the revennes day by day

a

a moro!

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assuming flemishing aspeel : For that if as the Inspector Ceneral of Customs stated, the annual increase to the revenue would be between

four and five hundred thousand tacks, there would indeed be most decided gain.

That it was

سے ہے

the proper duty

of the Officials of the said Province

that the merchants paid.

to taste carci

duty, and that it would never de for the local Authorities to ignore thin share of responsibility

That His Samperial, Merguity

therefore ordered Sui and

carry

out the

shing to

by

suggestions made the Board

Mr. Hart and by

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