CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 377

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established in the immediate vicinity of this Harber, for the purpose of visiting and searching all repelo leaving Hongkong, - estensibly to erocertain whether they have opium on board, without having previously frovided themselves with stamped Tickets and Brands for the Chests and 1Balls of Opium respectively, which the Proclamation

being procured at

a

cost of the vapel

insists on 16 tails for each chest to secure

Cargo from confiscation the

and her

moment she leaves these waters.

2

I cannot find that the Proclamation

'make's

any

and

touign

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перево

and

distinction between Native

owned vessels

bound for the open

any

between

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other destination. Whether

Treaty Ports

the former distinction was

not, I cannot

say

intended or but no such distinction

is made in the terms of the hoclamation.

3.

I need not remind Your Space that

by the Treaty of Tientsin and the

thereto Foreigners

Articles annexed

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entitled to import Opium into the Treaty Ports at a fixed Juriff of 30 Jaelo per chest. By the 12+ Article of the Treaty British subjecto

are also entitled to hire

whatever boats they please for the

transport of goods

it would seem

subject

and

papengers, and therefore that a British would be entitled to hire a funk

here and transport opium hence to banton

Swataw

and sell it there

30

on payment of the Treaty cluty, viz.