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cordon round Wangtong and Macau, and which, if not made a means of squeezing by terrorism but conducted honestly and fairly—which it is not, would be unobjectionable.
19. Unquestionably the collection of duty on the greater part of those 10,000 Chests was all along successfully effected, if we are to believe the Vice-any to whose ports it was principally destined. The inconvenient round about Chinese Revenue rules, which used to insist on vessels bound in a totally different direction paying duties at not convenient Station, as at Canton, was the cause of much evasion of the law. Nevertheless, it seems improbable that half the total quantity exported in native bottoms, that is 3,000 Chests, could have evaded payment of duty at the port where it was intended to evade duty at same port in Chinese territory.
20. To many native vessels, the establishment of Custom Stations close to this Port, if fair treatment were always obtained, would be a very great convenience, but whether the treatment be fair or unfair, it is pretty certain that at present all or almost all the Opium exported from Hongkong now at least pay the legitimate duty. If therefore the
20.
21.
cordon round Wangtong
and Macau,
and which, if not made a means squeezing by terrorism but conducted
of
honestly and fairly-which it is not,
would be mobjectionable.
of duty
19. Unquestionably the collection
on the greater part of
10,000 Chests
those
was all along successfully
we are to believe the Vice-
effected, if 1
Any to whose ports
it
Mag
principally
for
destined. The inconvenient round about
Chinose Revenue rules, which used
to insist on
vessels band in a
totally different direction-
of
chai
way
very
Was
gomg
ent
to pay duties at not
carvenient Station, as at Canton,
The cause
of much evasion of
the law. Nevertheles it seems
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improbable, that half the total quantity exported in native bottoms, that is 3,000 Chests could have evaded,
by ever was
of the
payment
port in the
was intended to evade duty at same
at same port Chinose territory
20. To many
establishment of Cust
native vesels the
ans
Stations close
to this Port, if fair treatment
always evitain, would be
a.
ww
a very
great convenience, but whether the treatment be fair or unfair, it is
pretty
certain, that at present all or almost all the Opium exported from Wong-
now at least pay.
Kong door
The
legitimate duty. If therfore the
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