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Agreement of India Give
10703
Finance and Commerce
Department of Finance
Measures to Despatch 2: 170 of 1886
Dated 6th August 1885 (Private and Confidential)
From W. Keswick Esq.
To The Secy to the Govt of India, Financial Dept.
I have received, by the mail from China, a letter from my brother, in the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co., stating that when he was lately at Tientsin, he had several conversations with Chinese high officials on the subject of the collection of duty and tax on opium.
The Chinese have never been able to collect duty and the tax on the whole of the opium that has entered China; and now that the Convention, lately signed in London, recogn...
602
Greement of India Give
10703
Finance and CommerceANG
department of Finance
E, casures to Despatch 2: 170 of 1886
Dated 6th August 1885 __ (Private and Confidential;,
From fif.f. Keswick Ea qu
Is. The lecy to the Gook of India, Financial Dept.
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lately signed in London, reco
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