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exposures as the present should do much to clear the "smuggling depot" of the which reputation which has been accorded to it by persons in high office and account for the falling off in the last year's Revenue.

27. Extracts from the manuscript digest giving the rates of Customs duties and regulations of the Awang Lung Hopps forms the subject of Enclosure 14. This well-estimated manuscript is quite a curio and shows that the trader who used it knew his business.

It commences by stating the additional charges on the proper Customs dues and carefully details what these Charges are. There is then a table constructed to show how much a rate of duty of, say, 2 mace nominally really is, and also how much real duty a case at 2 mace nominally must pay and so on up to 10 mace or taels. It will be observed that as the series of rates ascend, the ratio between the nominal rates and the real rates diminishes, and that is accounted for by the fact that several of the Charges are constant, whatever may be the rate of duty.

I have selected at random a number of common commodities and placed opposite them their tariffs and prices.

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exposures as the present should do much to clear the "smuggling depot" of the which reputation which has been accorded to it by persons in high office and account for the falling off in the last year's Revenue. 27. Extracts from the manuscript digest giving the rates of Customs duties and regulations of the Awang Lung Hopps forms the subject of Enclosure 14. This well-estimated manuscript is quite a curio and shows that the trader who used it knew his business. It commences by stating the additional charges on the proper Customs dues and carefully details what these Charges are. There is then a table constructed to show how much a rate of duty of, say, 2 mace nominally really is, and also how much real duty a case at 2 mace nominally must pay and so on up to 10 mace or taels. It will be observed that as the series of rates ascend, the ratio between the nominal rates and the real rates diminishes, and that is accounted for by the fact that several of the Charges are constant, whatever may be the rate of duty. I have selected at random a number of common commodities and placed opposite them their tariffs and prices.
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exposures as the present should do Imuch to clear the "Imuggling depot

of

the wich reputation which has been accorded to it by persons in high office and account for the falling off in the lastoons Revenue »»

27. Extracti

6 from the manuscrit dejest giving the eater of Customus

duties and

reg.

alations of the Awang Lung Hopps forms the subject of Enclosure 14 - This well = Chimated manuscript is quite a curio and shows that the trader.

who used it knew his business-

It commences by suring the additional charges

on the proper Customis tues and carefully detects

ا

Sir Brooke B Scopatch of the

Endome

439

are.

There is

what these Charges

then a table constructed to thew

how much a rate of duty of mace

во

B

the nominal tariff really also how much real duty

case at 2 mace rominally muest pay and so on up to 10 resce or Ituel. It will be observed that as

the Series of rates ascend the ratio

between the nominal rates and ite

real rates diminishes, and that is accounted for by the fact that several of the Charges are constant. whatever may

be the rate of duty.

I have selected at random rumber of common commodities and

placed opposite theen their tarifs

prices

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