There
12
are other ways of collecting the revenue, treal Hong/zony as within the
China,
We might e.g.
Customs area
opicra hium
on all
g
a ubate
as far
q
the
as
Con-
is concerned, and lovry an import duty
opiam, giving tax to ther ofpreem farmer on opium
the colony:
China a lump
in the
-Sumed in
∙late to
pay
teim
: or we might in pe
antually sum for a
so tam years,
such sum
to
net collection a
represent the average leave the mode of collection. quite open, but the expat duży is. I imagine, the simplest a mos? practical flan. There are objections to it: it lobs Hong Kong of the prestige of being a free port- though fact as regard: opium it is not free alreader; and if it is stars
as a matter
effective
we shall lose revenue
for
the opriam farmer, deprived of pickings, with lid less than before.
We need only consider
opium. I think,
In connexion with smuggling. Arms
Can alream be dealt with by proclamation;
2 Iventare to recommend that we
as above to the
matte an offer alive
Chinese Jodelle while summarily
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The marked I
the 17 reta
66
rejecting Sir R Hant's proposals.
M. Cook haut states- page 17926- that the boundary fixed or the convention "would render smuggling an eaty
which, in view of the pledge gaben
matter
to
China ought to be avoided. He thinks 2 Sir W-Hamilton that if we
agrees
collect their custome we might sth that the Nothic boundary should be modified. This is the last point of importance to notice: it is dealt with on pp. 17 and 18 of the repa. Map-10. shove the additional territory which M. Lockhart
acquire. He luges
Shows that the proposal for a modified boundary has already been scut to Pekin-
wants us to
Deep
that
the convention Boundary which is the Phutest line from boy to boy
Thigs are ther
baast is not a natrual boundary
and
Cuts a homogeneone district in two leaving the line the centre
Just beyond
district- the town Sham Chun!
of
the
I think we had better leave the natural bornday & argument alone : it the natural boundary might be
lary might be found inside inhead of the convention line fasted outside
Nor had we better raise again
question of
the merg
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the
the bays: it