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complamed of the action of a cruiser

to the

Hongkong government, the petitioner should be

sent to the Consul at Canton, at whose instance

the Hoppe would depute

aw

Officer to investigate

the case, appeal being reserved to the Consul

and a

iniquery

Competent Chinese Officer, should the first

4thly that

not prove satisfactory :

while omvoron to enter small things carried

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as

the

of the Cruisers. Without this indeed,

master now stands, these Customs Houses could

do little to secure the revenue

they collect. -

I informed Per

My

own idea had been as

Brooke Robertson before I left China in 1876,

that the Chinese Government, ( whose right to do what they

I have at the same

are now

doing

lime never disputed), should be wiged to

substitute for the system which so

considered a venial offence,

tur a

a Junk

with a

full cargo, night

be

Colony,

a

brauch

of

serious

evas tono

of

the the Foreign Inspectorate of

annoys

Office

upion

the

Lastly

of

by

am

arrangement with

duty would be severely punished, the Junk mader

being competent to denounce the givety:.

that a pink tariff should be exhibited at the

three stations near

Hongkong

and elsewhere.

I had expressed an

opmon that Lui Brooke

of a I found

Robertson's rules were at least deserving

any

trial but on arrival in Hongkong, that they had not received the approval of Mr. Pope Hennessy; his mam objection being if I have understood it aright, that they neither

remove the obnoxions Custom Houses, nou

sufficially

obnoxions,

modify the achon, held to be

equally

Customs, which might place an

Chinese side of the harbour, on the land west

British Cowloon', and,

the Colomat Government, might collect the revenne

due to China on all junk cargoes leaving the

The inspection and

-certification of Junks being conducted runder Condition

Colony.

agreed to by the Colonial Government; it would scarcely be possible that misunderstandings between it and the Canton Authorines of the Rind now complamed

of should recur. We might also be sure that no

duty would be levied as at present i

excevo

of

tolistove