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proves productive, there will be

Aro

:ctions to increasing objections expenses, there being

adhere

regidly

to

one

the

no need to

particular sunn? (The memorialisto pray) therefore that the regular duty of thirty tools be forthwith collected, the accomsts of the total quantity collected by the end of the year being forwarded for the and deeping of the Board of Revenu

inspection

As to the particular sived of stamped certificate that it will be advisable to give to the merchants after they have paid their duty, and as to all other matters of detail it will be well for the Governor

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General and his coadjutors to frame a set of regule

of regulations, which they will forward for the approval of His Majesty, and (on obtaining it) proceed to put them into force .

At all events although this

scheme is only

at ik commencement,

it is hoped that it will be (effectually ) carried out as it conceus

the interest and revenue Levernmen O. The Iverner General,

of the

and his colleagues ought to privése forthwith to lay down some well,

considered) plan - which while preserving amity between foreigners and Chirese will also strengthen what is good,

is good, and difsipate what is

EC.