watch the interests
India, and take
care that, whatever Regulations may be speed upon in the Colony, the opium
which is to come within their operation
is guaranteed as complete immunity from further taxation
the
opium
which under
the additional article of July 1885 has
paid a duty taken as the Treaty rate.
And this
may
here be managed
depend upon the local conditions of
the Trade, which
are
found the Chinese for
will have an
on the spot
already aware
how purely the
work formal finance not open which has paid Customs duty, Likin shall
not be liable to any further dues of
any sort or kind. I would be
advisable to have this assurance
recorded (the Commission
will understand that
the scope of the Commission is to devise
means
of to remedy the complaint
of the Hong Kong Govt. respecting the interference
of the Canton Customs Revenue Cruizers
with the pack trade of that Colony
and to prevent smuggling from Anshory,
and that it is not authorized
if not
to impose any restrictions
on trade beyond the limits of the Colony.
We must, therefore, be careful not to
appear to any measures
depending