and general control.
$7,650
(c)
Chinese Clerks at various
768
Police Stations.
3,600
(d)
Allowances for extra work at
cut-stations.
2,000
£ 25,750
To this would have to be added the initial expense
of a launch £18,500. Any other work involved would fall with- in the duties now performed by police, revenue officers and junk inspectors. A small motor boat might be required. The launch would of course also be of assistance in the control of liquor and opium, and the export of military stores.
16.
I have tried to give some idea of the general situation from the point of view of practice without going into full details. I would like to emphanie the following
points:-
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(1). Any system of control or taxation is practical-
ly useless without the adoption of a smilar
system in lacao.
(2). Genuine co-operation is required both from the
Chinese and the lacas authorities. This particu- larly applies to the movement of salt by junk between here and Swatow,
(3). The expenditure that I have roughly outlined
would be necessary even in the case of control without taxation, if such control was to be in
any way effective.
(4).
(4). I believe my figures for revenue to be fairly
sound, but if fishing junks are allowed salt
free the revenue from a tax on other consumption
would be reduced.
(5). Little or no extra expenditure would be involved
in taxation as compared with a system of simple
control.
3d.
R. 0. HUTCHISON,
S. 1. E. 15.11.15.