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which could not be settled through

the Consul at Canton, evidently surprised

them as

they asked for

of the meeting

I do next.

adjournment

an a

nder & consider what

It would appear as

- they reckoned on this Government woking for concessions, and expecially for the removal of the Customs stations

the entrances to the

which guard harbour, in return for which they would stipulate for permission textablet within the Colony and a bonded stora for the deponit of Opium until the duty had been paid Cherson

7.

or its water bulks

At the next meeting do the Commission Sir Robert Hart after tracing the history of the Opium Trade

time and observing

up to the present

Bat

stat the increased duty consented to his the additional Agreement of 1885 would naturally entail increased inducement= to smuggling, explained the three ways that the Government of Clina Lad under their consideration for collecting the increased duty riz:.

and

firstly : Ihe collection by China unaided which would be very expensive would no doubt cause much

irritation from the stringent

that would have to be accoptech.

for the protection of the Perenne_ secondly: the collection of the Earene,

in India -

dindly :. He collection of the duty in akong atong with the assistance of the Government & the Colony, by the establishment of hulks in the

Harbour and a bonded store in

the Colony.

The