CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8] — Page 424

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He narrowed the issue when requested Her Majesty's Consul to obtain from the Hoppo a list of the "legitimate duties" of which the "Government had been heretofore defrauded."

So as to place this defrauded Government in a position to judge whether any particular complaint was well founded or not.

5. It soon became clear that no list of legalized duties would be accorded and that one of the greatest difficulties connected with the solution of the Blockade question was the inability of the Colonial Government to obtain from the Chinese high officers, through Sir Brooke Robertson or otherwise, an authentic copy of Regulations and Tariffs governing the levy of customs duties on native goods shipped within the Hoppo's jurisdiction.

6. It occurred to me that much information as to the Rules and Regulations and Customs duties might be obtained by careful enquiry among the Chinese merchants residing here and the various traders frequenting this port; and as His Excellency is aware, I have been recently engaged during my spare moments in a private examination of many Chinese books...

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422 Bullway He narrowed the issue when requested Her Majesty's Consul to obtain from the Hoppo a list of the "legitimate duties" of which the "Government had been heretofore defrauded." So as to place this defrauded Government in a position to judge whether any particular complaint was well founded or not. 5. It soon became clear that no list of legalized duties would be accorded and that one of the greatest difficulties connected with the solution of the Blockade question was the inability of the Colonial Government to obtain from the Chinese high officers, through Sir Brooke Robertson or otherwise, an authentic copy of Regulations and Tariffs governing the levy of customs duties on native goods shipped within the Hoppo's jurisdiction. 6. It occurred to me that much information as to the Rules and Regulations and Customs duties might be obtained by careful enquiry among the Chinese merchants residing here and the various traders frequenting this port; and as His Excellency is aware, I have been recently engaged during my spare moments in a private examination of many Chinese books...

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422

Bullway

narrowed the issue when

Uquested

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oblain from the Hoi twan a list of the "legitimate duls" of which the "Government had been heretspor.

to place this

defrauded Government in a position to judge whether any particular complaint was well founded or not.

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5. It soon became clear that no hat of melhorized duties would be accorded and that one of greatest difficulties connected with the colution of the Blockade,

le question was the inability of the Colonial Movernment to Ham from the Chinese thigh officers through fir

Sir Brooke Robertson or otherwise

the Rules,

an authentic copy of Regulations, and Zarifs, governing

the levy of customs duls on natil

within the Hoppos

shipped goods

Jurisdiction -

6. It occurred to me that

much information

as to the Mules

and Regulations and Customs dulitis hight be oblamed by

Curs

Enguery

Among the Chinese merchants residing

here and

the

various traders

frequenting this port; and as thes Excellency is aware I have been recently engaged during my spare moments in a private.

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