CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 264

riott of my sim International

similar vuolation of usage being

9.

CH

soon

repeated.

8. At the same time I think Your Space will

aque

with

me

in con

considering

of

it highly important in the interesto

this bolony, and with

a view to preserving friendly relations with the Chinese lovernment. a task incompatible with the establishment of a permanent blockade of this harbor, that provisions should be introduced

into

any

revised

Treaty of Tientan

rendering imposible seizures like that referred to, and also declaring illegal mere proclamations forbidding a repel to ship dutiable articles in a

Foreign Port,

unles with a Tennit obtained first hom the Chinese Customs.

I

is not too much to expect of

the Chinese Government that it should

lake

efficient

measures

for collecting bustoms duties at the Ports of arrival, whulst anything like seizure of vefaelo

clearing hence the moment they get outside of the harbor should be

definitely prohibited. If the Chinese bustoms Officers

are once allowed to

derive emoluments on

such source, an

H

any pretext from opportunity would be afforded of "squeezing", and annoying

all repels clearing from here in such

a

that the present extensive traffic

carried on in bhinese bottoms with

this leclony would re long be ammilulated.

Even as the Treaty

10.

now stands the