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such in
incxpedient to accept any offer. It is not for a direct prauniary
payment, from
rose
such a source, that
- ought to agree to the proposal ; though made with the best possible intentions, of sittling an acknowledged difficulty. But if by allowing a recognized duty
ON" DAVU
an article, in
(
the export of which a rich sow
interested, to be collected in
Hong Kong under certain conditions,
quarantees that
we could obtain
the local trade generally should be relieved from the extortionate
demands made
on
it by those who have as a rule farmed certain taxes from the Canton Government_
if, in shart, the Canton River and the Coast line in our
vicinity
AVENE
-cleared of the Salt - Cruizers, and other Revenue Boats which harass
petly
the native traders of the Colony -
we should
reap
an
undoubted
advantage, well worth the consideration of the Government. doubt that the system
There is no
which will enable the largest
portion of the Community to count & personal and commercial sufsty will be the mast profitable to Hong Kong, and at present a large majority of the Traders su
suffer. incalculably by the swarm
of
persons and boats engaged in debeating
EC.
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