Opium going out pays
53 taels and
6.
La ce
per chest or
every
ball 9:98.
On entering Zo Kong it pays $60 per chest.
We
get the brand chop
chop Hung San at Lû sau mind. They don't say how
many
dollars we have paid.
Cloths pay 12 candareens each piece (European duty & candareens) and there
is an additional
5 candareens for
every fifty pieces to be paid for "funshan"
The
duty on bark for fishing is by the Foreign tariff - 3 candareens per picul.
But we pay 472
Candareens at the
1/2 candareens for the
Officials - Total 4 candareens -
Sandal wood- tariff duty 14-1/2
add fifty percent at the station
and 1/2
candareens for each picul
for the officials.
Irow-pans-
1.2.5 per moul.
add fifty percent and
for the officials -
1.72
Landareens
The bribes paid going out vary-
I have paid 30, 40, 50 and even
100 dollars, on a cargo.
I have
paid the
money
direct to the supercargo.
Original supercargoes have paid it - they told me.
It is always given secretly - "Om Esin= dark money"
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On arrival at Formosa,
duty is payable
on opium.
anything
The Irow-pans
are manufactured
in the Canton province - They have
when
duty
but they leave their own country. All Canton goods shipped for
Formosa must
pay duty at Foo Chow.
I have not done business with
Siatow, Canton or Macao. Mind
is an adonphong trade.
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