2 be a
3
hardship & have taken steps lighten the burthen by advocating obtaining the establishment Two stations on the coast in the neighbourhood of Dongthong, where
Their duties &
punks
can
pay
receive a port clearance, without
being
under the neces
avority of
proceedling to Canton, as obliged under the existing regulations. This I have done with
a view
of meeting the complaints which the Com? support
may
observe
That the Com? are in error
regaroling the capture of the Vracao Junk. Its release was demanded & the demand
complied with
Authorities on
its having
on the
bz
been
the Chinese As of grounds seized in
Macao waters, &, with rez.
at all to the general issue
raised
by
the Com? in this Sect of
their Report.
00: 13. It is impossible
impossible to say
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what evidence the Com? make this assertion, but, as regards
Hainan that Foland is part of The Canton province & consequently under the jurisdiction of the Canon Provincial
can oc
say
goot..
All Y is that have never
hearor of at, & as regards the
Fotien
iz.
province, I much doubt
No5° 14. The cases of these 2. funks The Ng-hop-sing & the Flum-hop-ming are similar & very simple: when boaroud & their papers demanded they could show only a receipt For likin
or war tax & none for export duties on their cargoes
was affir mes
pay or
they
or obtain a
could not
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"receipt For-
duties of a port clearance from
the places they loaded at & that might be do
" for, as before obsonech There are not Custom Houses at
every
raised