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Before going into the history of this ques-
tion it is necessary to call attention to the Chinese
system of levying Customs duties which goes to the
root of the difficulties that have arisen regarding
the Navigation of the Inland Waters and specially of
the West River.
That system is a double one and leaves the
collection of Revenue partly in the hands of the Im-
perial Maritime Customs and partly in the hands of
the Provincial Customs Administration. The former
levies the duties on steamers trading between Treaty
Ports and between Treaty Ports and foreign places,
the latter on steamers trading under the Inland
Navigation Rules between non-Treaty Ports and between
The Revenues from Treaty Ports and non-Treaty Ports.
these two sources are kept so jealously separate that the Chinese will not allow steamers engaged in the one trade to engage also in the other, add this is the chief complaint of the Shipping Firms in
Hong Kong.
In February 1898 Sir C.MacDonald obtained from the Tsung-11 -Yamen an assurance that the In- ternal Waterways of China would be opened before the middle of fune (1898) to British steamers, and they accordingly instructed Sir R.Hart to frame Regula-
tions