CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8] — Page 468

Opium going out pays

53 taels and

6.

La ce

per chest or

every

ball 9:98.

On entering Zo Kong it pays $60 per chest.

We

get the brand chop

chop Hung San at Lû sau mind. They don't say how

many

dollars we have paid.

Cloths pay 12 candareens each piece (European duty & candareens) and there

is an additional

5 candareens for

every fifty pieces to be paid for "funshan"

The

duty on bark for fishing is by the Foreign tariff - 3 candareens per picul.

But we pay 472

Candareens at the

1/2 candareens for the

Officials - Total 4 candareens -

Sandal wood- tariff duty 14-1/2

add fifty percent at the station

and 1/2

candareens for each picul

for the officials.

Irow-pans-

1.2.5 per moul.

add fifty percent and

for the officials -

1.72

Landareens

The bribes paid going out vary-

I have paid 30, 40, 50 and even

100 dollars, on a cargo.

I have

paid the

money

direct to the supercargo.

Original supercargoes have paid it - they told me.

It is always given secretly - "Om Esin= dark money"

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On arrival at Formosa,

duty is payable

on opium.

anything

The Irow-pans

are manufactured

in the Canton province - They have

when

duty

but they leave their own country. All Canton goods shipped for

Formosa must

pay duty at Foo Chow.

I have not done business with

Siatow, Canton or Macao. Mind

is an adonphong trade.

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