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apparently made according to

and rapacity of

the caprice

the

petty Officials in charge of the

Cruizers and Stations,

The state of the local trade could not be worse, in time of

peace, than at

than at present, and it will certainly not be improvel

bye

an increase in the number of the very unscrupulous employ's of the native Customs whose business it will be to collect the Opium duty': If, then, from Hong Kong meets with success in pretting a stop to the contemplated very irregular and unneighbourly proceedings of the Chinese Government,

no remonstrance

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I would advise that this Government

state it's readiness to entertain. proposals from the Chinese Authorities

for rendering them assistance in-

collecting the duty in Hong Kong

Opium to be exparted into the

neighbouring Province.

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It will be remembered that in

Side Grads an important Memorandum by- Reports say Me Dick, Commissioner of Customs

Shanghai, it was suggrated that

Appendix N. 6.

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the Hong Hong Government should be asked to consider this matter,

and

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offer of a proportionate part

of the duty colleated should be made

to

us ad a

soil of Sop to Cerberus ."

It would in

my opinion,

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