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useved to the same
effect. In the month of
June)
1863 a
despatch was received from the Canton
Arsenal Authorities recommending that in future
all military officers without distinction as well as
towns and villages requiring munitions of
must be provided with a
permit before they would
eva p
be allowed to make any purchases from abroad.
In all cases
passed the Kap-shui Customs Barrion with cargoes
of gunpowder, the officers on the Customs staff at-
that place were perfectly pistified in examining and
detaining these cargoes.
With regard to the territory of Macas,
·
it was
originally leased as a place of residence by the--
from
Government of China to that of portugal, and
the latter is due
okr
of disobedience the offenders would,
detection, be apprehended and severely punished)
according to the laws dealing with those who lend
comfort and assistance to seditionis characters. The
then Viceroy approved of this recommendation
and exsiced instructions commanding obedienc
thereto;
so that merchants, whether foreign
nahie, are not permitted to import
contraband goods
such
China)
"goods as gunpowder, Ve into
mstance, when Hongkong traders
In the present matance,
an annual rental of Five hundred
Jarls Previous to the year 1848 this rent wag
paid by the Portuguese yearly; but they have been
indebted for this annual sum from the year 1849
to the present time : however, owing to the good feeling
long between the two countries,
which had subecited so
the local Authorities have always been slow to use
amy pressure for payment of the overdue rent. Of
would appear unreasonable to claim Macao as ai
Portuguese possession on the ground that no rent
passed
has