CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 262

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It

requires almost a personal thowledge of the Chinese character to appreciate the

that race

the influence exerted on

by such proceedings

taken

by their Government, because Chinese

residents here

generally

awn

property

and also have family connections on

the Mainland, who are

quite within

the power of the Chinese Authorities,

"

"and are

dealt with

mast severely

in

any

Native Officials.

The

was

consequence

the event of their relatives disobeying

order, legal or illegal, of the

temporary panis in the Native Opium

market here.

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It would evidently be

a

very

cheap and

saay

method of maintaining

Revenue Preventive Service, if the

banton Government could insist on such previous payment of bustoms dues at banton by refoels clearing from

a

neighboring Foreign Port such as this. It is moreover

nudles to observe that.

a

CH.

if they could justify merely by Proclamation the search for opium on the comfires of this harber, they might by ifsue of similar proclamations affecting repelo clearing from bonghong equally prevent them from carrying cotton. English goods. or any

other commodity imported

hure for the general purposes of

b. There

is a

trade.

large and most respectable bhinese Commercial Community settled. here, whose operations are highly

conducive