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useved to the same

effect. In the month of

June)

1863 a

despatch was received from the Canton

Arsenal Authorities recommending that in future

all military officers without distinction as well as

towns and villages requiring munitions of

must be provided with a

permit before they would

eva p

be allowed to make any purchases from abroad.

In all cases

passed the Kap-shui Customs Barrion with cargoes

of gunpowder, the officers on the Customs staff at-

that place were perfectly pistified in examining and

detaining these cargoes.

With regard to the territory of Macas,

·

it was

originally leased as a place of residence by the--

from

Government of China to that of portugal, and

the latter is due

okr

of disobedience the offenders would,

detection, be apprehended and severely punished)

according to the laws dealing with those who lend

comfort and assistance to seditionis characters. The

then Viceroy approved of this recommendation

and exsiced instructions commanding obedienc

thereto;

so that merchants, whether foreign

nahie, are not permitted to import

contraband goods

such

China)

"goods as gunpowder, Ve into

mstance, when Hongkong traders

In the present matance,

an annual rental of Five hundred

Jarls Previous to the year 1848 this rent wag

paid by the Portuguese yearly; but they have been

indebted for this annual sum from the year 1849

to the present time : however, owing to the good feeling

long between the two countries,

which had subecited so

the local Authorities have always been slow to use

amy pressure for payment of the overdue rent. Of

would appear unreasonable to claim Macao as ai

Portuguese possession on the ground that no rent

passed

has