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are

meditating at this

Coment their demeval

te Canton

or Macaq, or

the northeme Tests.

viz:

One or two (Sbelieve)

Messrs Rawson & lo and Mess?! Boustead

vlo

re gone already.

Now I think this taxe is

very likely to influence.. others, not from its amount, but from the trouble it entails, and the principle

it involves, and that the

absence of any one of the leading Firms would-

carry with it a great many

of the minor ones.

or

these

It is

e grounds Saveuld

dissuade from this tax,

as

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well as from all other taxes of a similar

description for the present; have given

and until we

maturity and strength -to the Colony, by allowing

the inhabitants to take Root under all the advantages of the most liberal protection . If Sam told that taxes of

a

similar nature.

are

levied at Singapore, which

is also a free port, then's would ask how

or at what peried

2001-

rea

taxation of this kind

made part of the policy of that settlement

Looking

at the taxe

a j