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other neighboring countries, all of
which took small quantities; and the consumption
of Hongkong is some 2 or 3 thousand peculs.
—
Shanghai
Comed
Prochow with the assistance of this
Consuls have successfully visited the levy of back taxes
worn on
opium going out of foreign go-downs in a Twat Put. Ten thousand peculs at 30 taels
+
pecul imed for 300, or lacks on about £100,000
wown if
This
sum is not to very considerable, and
ten won added to it the loss
Vedmeting
ff
have them a residue of 14 or 15°
A
thousand peculs
Macao
how, in whatever smuggling is carried on,
bears certainly its fair proportion, and it can hardly
be called a smuggling transaction for the merchants
of Kwanghang to sell Opium zu braces. — Paying them
ju
that some 4 or 5 thousand peculs find
tar
Why
there in steamers and in native craft 10,000 peculs will
be left
Maytung
he maxim
Che im
The
maximum amount for which the Chinese are
in any way
to be held accountable.
import duty of 30 taels a pecul is the sum that could be collected in Hongkong. – for the Imperial maritime customs do not collect Likin
or other inland taxes anywhere; and the merchants of
Macao
smuggling a
—
total loss of £150,000 (out of
half
of this sum
lown latterly to a reduction of more than one
I account
of payments at the rate of
chert at their stations, heretofore alluded to) is
hot to emoriam
on an article so easily smuggled
bund in which the duties are so excessive. – But
such as it is the loss ought not to be credited to
smuggling — In it occurs partly through the improper
supervision by the Chinese of their own
and more through the corruption
of the officials.
Fort
of the opium was landed with
Shanghai