has been found inconvenient. Inasmuch as the ship carrying such consignments carries also such miscellaneous goods owned
by the Sailors and various travelling traders. This variety of owner-ship creates difficulty in procuring the proper papers from the Ting-hai Treasury. It is now agreed upon by the Customs that
Cases such as these, the owners register their consignments direct at Hua-lan-Chan (ustom House and can obtain the proper papers for
payment of duties on arrival at ...
432
it is stated in the rules lately framed by this Establishment that junks under 100 pecul tonnage shall be exempted from this payment and that such exemption has been announced by proclamation as being in accordance with law. But now the Customs deny that any
such announcement had been made by the proclamation
that the said exemption cannot be permitted. Consequently all ships hereafter entering or leaving the harbor must make the said payment irrespective of the tonnage.
their places of destination. If, however, it is said that there are no new Custom Houses at the
ports of their destination there are at Macao and at each said ports (Binho" ). - This is unintelligible in the Chinese, probably something left out in copying.) 119.
The foregoing regulations as to wheat & sundries may after all be dealt with by both new and old regulations.
that all duties are to be paid as to other cargoes are properly dealt with.
Certain tonnage dues exempt from ...
In reference to the anchorage fee Books, of 2 taels and 6 candareens payable by Ships entering and leaving the Starbor
it reports & enforces that the person ...
gratuities for the prefectum mit ...
·Ilus furfionê · these
fees to go to
some officers -
rules have been
framed in strict accordance with the old regulations and
from them it will be seen
that
various fees and charges have been
reduced - These arrangements appear
however to bear rather hardly
the
Customs people who are
"as
the
ware as if newly washed" (that is it
15
anchorage duty they must pay an extra charge)