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sould be of any material assistance to the Provino is2
Government financially or curvise. A period of
prosperity and stability in Canton would also naturally
be very beneficial to the trade of äugkong. Ent too
revenno waich it is proposed to pledge ao security for this
and which is indeed the only revenue available for
lend
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say loan is derived from the surtaxes, comonly known
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as the Fushing ton surtaxes,
As it was largely oring to
the initiative taken by Mis Majesty's Goverment that the
Powers acquiesoos in this increase in the Customs duties
it might give ríme to misconceptions if bany were now
made security for a British loɑn, Boreover ege sartuz S
anfortunately are not levied by the Maritime Customs but
by a variety of native bareɛux operating ander ton
authority of the Finance Department of the Provincial
dover zent. These bureaux and the department itself
habitually behave in a cost arbitrary and traculent maker
et
tovarda British merebants who are thas deprived of the
valuable safeguard which an honest Customs Administr» tio a
in former years afforded. The Chinese collecting
organisation does not soasiet of one properly regulated
department/