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On Sect. 11
you
on observe that iz junks proceeding from Hongkong with manufactured goods to distant ports beyond the jurisdiction The Canton Cuthorities were to be stopped en route or were to be compelled to go first to Canton to pay Export duties this wd be injurious to the Track of the Colony & might be objected to .- measure w? undoubtedly interfere with the junk trace of Colony, but I doubt that the Colony we have any right to object so
Either
the
long
as the Chinese cruisers attempted no action within the waters of the Colony.. When the fact is admitted
& it cannot be contested that the exports & imports carried in Chinese junks
are enabled by
making use of the Colonial Port to escape duties that wd otherwise be levied on them, & do not see how the Chinese are to secure
this
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a surveillance
my
this Revenue except by wh, in practice, is undoubtedly vexations, but who. They have in opinion the clearest right to exercise.
on Sect. 15 you refer to the belief That the Chinese goot wd be glad to see the Trace of Hongkong destroyed, & you appear to doubt this. I 020 not. The trade of Stonghong is the source of immediate tribulation to the Canton gort & it is to trouble that is near rather than to advantage That is far off that the Chinese
"Goot will always have an
eye.
Lastly on Sect 17 you repeat your denial that the "Stoppo farms
the duties on
junk cargoes. I was
mpelf undur the impression that he dich & that as
Superst
the Maritime Customs for the Province of Ruang Jung
Juny - which
altho' at Swatow the Collector
a
is the nominee of the goo? Gen? well as of the Hoppe "I have alway
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