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om

board in the

waters with opium neighborhood of Hongtong

receipts shewing payment of

arbeitory

and without

a new and

taxe would be liable to be boarded.

searched and have the opium Confiscated.

There can

therefore be no question that any such provision controvence the privilege

scared by Treaty to Ferrignes of importing

Opium into

on

paying an

any open

Port in China and

it there the fixed Tariff duty

ی این کارگاه

30 Jaelo per picul (133415 Avoirdupois).

of

13. Me

may

mow

consider the

question

on the supposition that the proclamation

of the Vice: they is to be read as

applying to Chinese repels only. I am however told that such is not the case and the Johinese Cuthorities consider themselves

encouraged

by Her Majesty's Minister to include persons and repels sailing under Foreign

Alags":

#

and certainly the latter are not excepted. Yet, wen if they were,

that

no Nation is entitled to

ن سعد متلة

Imaintain

require

even

subjects before shipping experts

from a neighboring friendly state, to pay

a taxe

com

such Exports. I believe the

better opinion to be that each State bound in its

owm

is

waters and along its

own shares to take the nerepary steps

печерапротеро

for preventing the illicit banding of joods

whether by then

own

Subjects

others

what

frando

and I have yet to learn on

Į

is

the Chinese Government is to be relieved from a trouble cund expense imposed on

other civilized Nations and be upheld

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