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considered as
to the creation
final
and decisive in regard
Chinese custom house & fiscal.
stations. In the said disp:
the
Viceroy acknowledged
that "the fiscal operations for the prevention of
sruggling
could be performed at the place
agreed upon. Notwithstanding
the
presumption
to which I allude, the temporary Viceroy Chavz
insisted on
{
Jare of this year, that the Sou
Lobo d'avila should point out a place
for
custom house
the establishment for a
th. territory of Long. Sane adjacent
station on
to Macao. Forgetful of the declaration made
the 29th Oct. 172 to which I have referred above, the divere fast gave asa
pretesct for
the
the demared, the necessity for premuting repected abuses of smuggling. Having mot
with a tenacious resistance to the accomplishment
oly
bis design from the grot of the Colony, the
Viceroy
Lio desisted, but to show clearly
this was morch for a time, he adanced
supposititions reasons
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Kat
of convenience that had
's livem by the Chinese Merchant,
represented to live by
In this
way
the
for the present.
question has been settled
From this short but accurate statement
it is manifest. that China, by the Requency
of her reclamations, the repitition of
submissive but tenacious
efforts to bring her custom house & fiscal stations as har osible to Macas has in viers, weder
the specious pretext of looking after her
fiscal revenues, to resound the ancient hopin
on the skirts
of
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or she knows she would
not be allowed to reative it with in the city.
The