laid down in Your Excellency's note of October 11th applies to this case likewise.
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I take &c.,
(Signed) Ernest Satow.
Sir:-
Rec? 4688 (REG 3 MAR 96/
December 28th, 1895. 33
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note of the 2nd instant in which you state that although duty was charged by the Yokohama Customs on 3750 bags of Formosa sugar shipped on the 2nd August last from Takao by Messrs Flint, Kilby and Company, a British firm of Yokohama, under a through bill of lading allowing of transhipment at Hong Kong, and landed at Yokohama by the S.S. "Strathesk", you are of opinion that the rule laid down in my note of the 11th October ought to be applied in this case.
I at once communicated with the Minister of Finance, and I have now received a reply to the effect that the Sugar in question having once passed
Sir Ernest Satow, K.C.M.G., &c., &c., &c.