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"I think a Chinese Agency for "The sale of stamps whether adhesive or impressed would be convenient to the Chinese and would be appreciated by them. All Chinese Merchants find the fact of there being only one Stamp Office and open only at certain hours extremely inconvenient. It would be immaterial whether such an Agency were conducted by the Government or by a private individual. I do not think that the Government would gain very much by it.

"I think if the charges of the duty contained in Schedule 3 of the Ordinance No 7 of 1868 relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes were reduced; and especially if the graduation as for instance from $100 to $3000 were not so violent, that there would be much less desire to evade the Ordinance than now.

"So long as the proposed Agency is conducted by a respectable man and well secured I do not see what objection there could be to the scheme."

I may mention that Mr. Jister was present at my request at the interviews.

(Signed) H. Wodehouse

Acting Registrar General

11 July 1877

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413 gerritemen "I think a Chinese Agency for "The sale of stamps whether adhesive or impressed would be convenient to the Chinese and would be appreciated by them. All Chinese Merchants find the fact of there being only one Stamp Office and open only at certain hours extremely inconvenient. It would be immaterial whether such an Agency were conducted by the Government or by a private individual. I do not think that the Government would gain very much by it. "I think if the charges of the duty contained in Schedule 3 of the Ordinance No 7 of 1868 relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes were reduced; and especially if the graduation as for instance from $100 to $3000 were not so violent, that there would be much less desire to evade the Ordinance than now. "So long as the proposed Agency is conducted by a respectable man and well secured I do not see what objection there could be to the scheme." I may mention that Mr. Jister was present at my request at the interviews. (Signed) H. Wodehouse Acting Registrar General 11 July 1877
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"I think a

a Chinese Agency for "The sale of stamps whether

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wenient to the Chinese

"and would be appreciated by "Them. All Chinese Merchants

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"by the Guvernment or by "private individual. I do not

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gain very and I think if the charges

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of the duty

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+7

t. & 3000

were not so

"violent, that there would be much

"lef desire to evade the Ordinance than now?

So long

praprosed Ageney

by a respeitatele

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the

enducted

man and well

"secured I do not see what

there could be to the

abjection there

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may

mention that Mr Jister

AAM

at my request present at the interviuss

(Signed 14. Wodeh

Acting Registrar General

11 July 1877

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