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Lorchas
From a very useful publication, the Chinese Commercial Guide, by the late Honorable J. R. Morrison, Phird edition, revised and printed at Canton, at the office of the Chinese Repository in 1848, I extract the following notice about Lorchas:
Four or Five years ago, the number of Schooners and Sloops plying between Canton, Whampoa Macas, and other places in their vicinity, was upwards of Seventy, most of them engaged in the Opium Trade, although other merchandize and passengers were carried to some extent. This number is now much reduced, chiefly owing to changes, in the trade, and by article Seventeen of the supplementary treaty of
October 8th 1843, this class of vessels has been put
regulations.
under new.
Spachages
"Art : 17. Small English vessels, Lovehas Schooners, and Cutters, Yawls or Fast Boats of every kind, have hitherto been subject to no duties; it is now agreed upon, that all such vessels going from Hong Kong to Canton, or Canton to Macao, if laden with merchanta le from goods, whether for Import or Export, or whether full or half lading, even to a hundred weight of cargo-/ with the exception of the letters, and passingers baggage, which according to the "old regulations were exempt from duties! such
vessel's according to their tonnage,
shall pay duties as agreed upon. But these small vessels are not to be put wron the same scale with large Foreign shije; moreover they clear out. of a month so that they differ from the larex Foreign Ships which anchor at Whampoa only; so that if they should be cared upon to par dutres like the large Foreign Thips it would necessarily be inconvenient and improper. Henceforth therefore, then vessies shait be classic in the following manner the smallest of them shall be rated at 75 Tons, and the largest, at 150 Tons, and every time they enter port they shall pay one Mace for every ton; those which do not amount to 75 Tons shall be reckoned at that rate, and those above 150 Tons shall be considered
and in several times in the course.
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