CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 31

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in the levey of Hoang Hong

DU

tase

ov

over and

Exports from

above the

regular

Tariff duty and above all a taxe to be

collected actually before the said Exports

shipped hom this Port.

are

TH

The accidental prographical position of Hangtong sunounded.

by the Chinese Mainland and other Chinese soil in the Si ape of various Jolando happens to afford opportunity to Chinese Officials- if not

expecially if encouraged Her Majesty's Manider of

prevented, and thereto

by

and

dutico on

adopting a comparatively eway inexpensive way of leveying dutico Exports at the place of exportation finstead of at that of importation, and

cannot help feeling that

CH-

any such attempt

to shink the responsibilitischenfully undertaken by other nations is contrary

to International

noage...

and must therefore

be on that ground illegal. for in reality it mattero little whether a Chinese Exporter

be directed to apply for receipts at a bhinese bustams station in the heart of this City or whether he should have to go for them to Kowloon at the other side of this harbor. So far as general

or general convenience is concerned the former system would be preferable.

15.

Again I maintain that the impurity

sheum

of these new proceedings may be shown by

"

the augmentum ad absurdum" because if

the Vice May

can insist on payment

before exsportation of

a mew

taxe of 16