д
jare
apparently made according to
and rapacity of
the caprice
the
petty Officials in charge of the
Cruizers and Stations,
The state of the local trade could not be worse, in time of
peace, than at
than at present, and it will certainly not be improvel
bye
an increase in the number of the very unscrupulous employ's of the native Customs whose business it will be to collect the Opium duty': If, then, from Hong Kong meets with success in pretting a stop to the contemplated very irregular and unneighbourly proceedings of the Chinese Government,
no remonstrance
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I would advise that this Government
state it's readiness to entertain. proposals from the Chinese Authorities
for rendering them assistance in-
collecting the duty in Hong Kong
Opium to be exparted into the
neighbouring Province.
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It will be remembered that in
Side Grads an important Memorandum by- Reports say Me Dick, Commissioner of Customs
Shanghai, it was suggrated that
Appendix N. 6.
eat
the Hong Hong Government should be asked to consider this matter,
and
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offer of a proportionate part
of the duty colleated should be made
to
us ad a
soil of Sop to Cerberus ."
It would in
my opinion,
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