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from a foreign port in the four lower "prefectures of the province for a foreign port is subject to the levy of the "Reitisbee at the port of

"reilishni"

the picent, and before being taken to its destination must be brought to Kiantau where besides paying a local tax called the 'Sino ho

it has to pay Export duty according to the Foreign Tariff.

19. To avoid the argument which the duties payable at Macao suggest against the general applicability of the regulation — that old Portuguese city is represented as being Chinese territory and if it is so why was it necessary

when the understanding was arrived at with the Macao merchants to pay the "neiti shui" on export? — Goods landed at Macao, where was the necessity to direct them to petition the Hop Kewan to

discharge "that duty which would otherwise be levied on them"? That affect who would memorialize Despatch of 18 May 1876. The P. & O. Mail steamer

for the Imperial sanction thereto? Is it not obvious that this is the merest subterfuge? The Hongkong Chinese Merchant was equal to it. "Oh very well", said the Hopkwan, "Hongkong is English territory, then the ingrowns territory

Graham Commissioner suggested plan of levying both together

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