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Authorities on to lawfully appointed Kinere Agents. that as regards Opium, it is not

to be exported to the Count

23.

7

Kina in

has not a

Junk that

any clearance

paper

lowing that the tariff duty has been duly paid to a lawfully appointed agent the Chinese Government.

7

I am informed by Mr.

Belilios that he and the other importers of Opinen from India willing to accept the principle

ate

embodied in this plan, by which ill

brium leaving Strusory in foreign

bottours is to

Go

Ance

as at present

and not bay buty till it reaches the treaty port, but that the opsinen

exhorted in Junks should

duty here

hay

the

24.

M. Start, the inspector

General of the Chinese Customs

favound

лив

with his opinion

also

beine

on my plan, and he has undertaken to support it, as strictly just to the Chinese govemment and tending to establish permanent good relations between Houstong and China, whilst rendering

perfectly free the real nalive.

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