same likin tax, an explanation which one has not much difficulty, in accepting
This witness states
that tea and camphor are the only exports which pay the likin tax in Formosa, and that no other duties are leviable except a small most duty" - It may not be out of place to point out that opium shipped from Hongkong to Tokhang Formosa pays at least a tax $130 per chest before it is laid down there
q
14. The next Enclosure W:10
is a most interesting document
and the information contained in it may be taken as reliable
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because it has been corroborated
from another source which is known to this Excellency - The first part of the enclosure details how a well-known Chinese Military Officer, Whampoa Jak, the Tow Bong Commandant induced a number of the principal
Chinese Hongkong merchants to visit
Canton in order to make some
arrangement with the provincial Authorities so as to raise the Blockade of this Port - On the 8th January last thirteen merchants representing fifteen Hong here the homes of which are
went to Canton and
on the 9th and 10th
they assembled
at Pang Kat's Canton private residence