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from

In addition to whatever information the cubject might have been obtained

thore despatches, my despatch 1:187 of the 29th of November 1877

enciosed a Financial statement, in

which (paragraph 5) I described, is far,

the results of the

the sale

for the

of the Agency for

of Stamps to the Chinese which had

then been in operation for a few

mouths.

4.

Without

venturing

to trouble

you by repeating what I said in those derpatches, I have the hour to add

the following information given to me this mouth by Mr. Lister, the Collector of Stamp Revenue.

LL

K

W

M

B

"

4

"The

Agency is at present in the

hands of Mr. Un-Man- tion formicely

Clerk to Mr Francis, a very respectable

and, as

man

for

as I can judge, trustworthy

who carries

Пи

the business in

the principal Chinece thoroughfare,

not

for from the Harbour department.

well satisfied

I am very

man, and have heard

him

with this

140

complaints

He lodges $1000 in the

Treasury as security.

"The Agent is allowed to purchase

at the Stamp Office any quantity of

Impressed or Adhesive Stamps which

મ

he

may require,

and

for

there be

like

assy

pays ready money just