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establishment was doomed they

at once lowered the rate to $70.

The Opium dealers in expectation

of this fall

have imported large

quantities of the dreng. decag,

as 1000 chest's having

days.

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as much

arrived in 3

The price havrivers about.

$70

a chest, thereby securing a large propt

to the direct importers from Mongkong.

Some opecim.

Lone

hasbeen sold here and

has been transhipped to the Formosan ports, but the bulk of it

is still held in the hope of a further fall in

in the lean levies.

The new

Regulations will I trust

put a stop to the muggling

which

(

which has been to prevalent at Away,

and to the unauthorised exactions

and over

awlessing

behaviour

of the

roughs

leben.

and rowdies employed

klovvvvers.

Q2

The records of this

Consulate show a series

-

of this

of

minis of acto

interference with British subjects,

Assaults on Chinese in foreign employ,

and afpays by armed

armed men

in the

harbour, and on

Amoy

and

Kulangue

Sslands. On the other hand. I

have little doubt that a

system

of smuggling at places at a distance from the Threaty Ports will spring up which will require

the

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