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considered as

to the creation

final

and decisive in regard

Chinese custom house & fiscal.

stations. In the said disp:

the

Viceroy acknowledged

that "the fiscal operations for the prevention of

sruggling

could be performed at the place

agreed upon. Notwithstanding

the

presumption

to which I allude, the temporary Viceroy Chavz

insisted on

{

Jare of this year, that the Sou

Lobo d'avila should point out a place

for

custom house

the establishment for a

th. territory of Long. Sane adjacent

station on

to Macao. Forgetful of the declaration made

the 29th Oct. 172 to which I have referred above, the divere fast gave asa

pretesct for

the

the demared, the necessity for premuting repected abuses of smuggling. Having mot

with a tenacious resistance to the accomplishment

oly

bis design from the grot of the Colony, the

Viceroy

Lio desisted, but to show clearly

this was morch for a time, he adanced

supposititions reasons

влени

Kat

of convenience that had

's livem by the Chinese Merchant,

represented to live by

In this

way

the

for the present.

question has been settled

From this short but accurate statement

it is manifest. that China, by the Requency

of her reclamations, the repitition of

submissive but tenacious

efforts to bring her custom house & fiscal stations as har osible to Macas has in viers, weder

the specious pretext of looking after her

fiscal revenues, to resound the ancient hopin

on the skirts

of

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or she knows she would

not be allowed to reative it with in the city.

The