(Copy)
(2)
(Extract from letter from the Hongkong
Branch of the Association.)
2nd. September,
1898.
200
At e Hosting of the Cosmittag held on Thursday laut,
the following resolutions on the subject of the Imperial Maritime Customs Rebabliaimont in and about Hongkong were
33333; Similer resolutions hud hoon passed the BRING afternoon by the Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, so that they may be taken to represent the most advanced opinions of our leading mon in the dispute now pending between the Customs and the Colonial Government.
1.
4.
i
Thut the Customs Office be no longer permitted
to collect duties in the Colony or its waters.
That all Opium urriving in the Colony be account - ad for either through the Agency of Bonded
Warehouses or otherwise.
That the Goverment do ell in their power to
protect the Chinese Revenue more especially, with regard to the Opium Parter.
That the Revenue Stations and Revenue Cruisers be removed beyond the limits of British territory and British waters.