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No.141
Hongkong.
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COLONIAL
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OFFICE
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Government House
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Hongkong, 31st. May, 1905.
sir,
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In continuation of my Despatch
No. 98 of the 7th. April, 1905, on the subject of the pena-
-lization of raw sugar produced in the Philippine Islands,
I have the honour to inform you that in reply to further
enquiries I recently made of the Consul-General of the
United States of America at this port he has informed me
that he has now been assured by the Civil Governor of the
Philippine Islands that the Government of those Islands
are powerless in the matter of reducing the rate of import
duty on Raw Sugar and glucose which by an Act of Congress
passed on the 3rd. March last to revise and amend the
Tariff Laws of the Philippine Islands was fixed at one
dollar and sixty-two cents per one hundred kilos gross
weight. I cannot ascertain the exact amount of import duty
imposed on Raw Sugar previous to the passing of the Act of
March 3rd. but the new Tariff appears slightly to enhance
the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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