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remaining thirty thousand chests

had been snuggled.

The Sonny Gineral had

· planted; stations in the localities

bordering Hengstong where the

Litlin

AVAI

ert

collected, and he had

alse placed gun vessels to be in

readiness

to

sear

arch for and scize

smugglers, (as a consequence of this)

while at the end of the

your

it was

found that Lexim had been levied

orr

twenty thousand chests of opium,

there

cv er e

only eleven hundred

Chests that had been tasten to

Canton and had there paid duty at the Custom Hour

Instead therefore of

0

cellecting the duty at the bauton Custone House; it would seem advisable to collect it at the five, Statims berdering on Hengstling, to wit - Dat-Law - Min, Rowleong, Kap shui Mein, Cheung Chaw, and Yung She Kouk, and also at the fowe station's bordering Macau, to Wit - Hug Pad Wan, Aware - Chap, his Kok, and Ezin - shen. At Rewolung and Kwanz

02/

Chap this might be done either

water by

vessel,

or on

AVVÉ A VED

of a steam

of

loved by

a Station, ateach of the other severs stations might be placed

one

cruizer, while three large,

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gan