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Cantar, ze th

July, 1868.

A.B. Ms. Consul Curton-

D. B. Rebubon CB.

to

Colonial Jerrilan

Wen J.G. Austin

Opium Pamili

Encloses dispatch from the Vice Roy relative to reported establishment of an Agency

Hongthing for the iSsue of

MA

T.

l

Enclosure N.44 in

Governon

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's

Despatch N.54887 25? July 1888

Copy) Hongkong No 325.

Sir,

I have laid

330

bolonial Secretary's Office,

1868.

10th July, 1868.

your Despatch of the 6* instant before Heis Eerillency bir Richard Graves Mackennell. His of Excellency learns therchom that it is

contemplated to sunouna this Harbor with a network of bustoms' stations intended to levy

an additional Tax in

Opium exported hence, and amounting to 15 per

cent

more

than the Tariff ficed

rules annexed to the Treaty of Tientsin.

must be well aware

by

As

you

D. 13. Robertson, Dog", 6. 13,

H. 13. M's Consul,

banton.

aware of the

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