CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 32

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30

13

Jails per

chest. why

can he not

impose

a

taxe of 160 Tails, and thus practically

prohibit the exportation of an article which

is

by cheaty

busters ?

16.

I

made an itim of legalized

I would huther inquire

the Treaty of Thentain has been made

directly between the Brition Goverment and the Imperiat Government of China

cub

; and, the rate of duty leviable

Con

as

Imported.

Opium has been fixed by that Treaty.

• The city

(in everything but the chansit duty payable after its being landed at a Port, it is competent for the Goven or of

Province to impose restrictions on

a

Itrade by the imposition of

on the

а тель

taxe

that article before it is landed oi

or

}

attempted to be landed in bhina. If so it is evident that the Tariff established.

by Treaty is little better than a smare and

there

be and

probably

delusion- for

might

soon would be as

many

and different

rates

of

as there

taxation thus imposed

are Maritime Provinces in China. In

that case

case what would become of "Collection of duties under one

the

system at

"all Ports," which is contempluted by Phule

10 annexed to the Treaty of Trintsin?

I cannot but feel

17. For these reasons

that the Vice Ray has attempted and

Her Majesty's Minister has functioned

a

system of which the legality

is more

than doubtful. whilst there is no claubt at all that such proceedings

are

contrary

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