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intermediate ports pay both Jusport. duty & Likin at Capsuimoon before proceeding.

3. Junks outward bound ie.

bound from Canton to Hong- -Kong direct, pay all Export dues and duties at Canton. On arrival at Capsuimoon. Duty paid Certificates are handed in, the varieties of goods and number & weight

of packages been entered therein, but not the amount of duty collected. In this -connection the irregularities vecus which the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce ascribe to a differential Jariff. By -greasing the itching palins of the Deputies and Choks of the Hoppos Departments either more goods to pass than documents

are allowed

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call for, or excess weights are winked at, the result being that less duty is collected than would have been the case had the same goods been dealt with by the Foreign Inspectorate of Customs. Owing to the number of Junks passing the Capsimoon station it is found impossible to tally every cargo,

but our system is to pick out craft promiscuously and

a hulk into send them alongside

which all c

I cargo is discharged. The result is that we

frequently find packages and weights in excess cometimes to a serions extent-

especially in connection with junks conveying goods for direct tranship – -ment to steamers bound for the Straits and Europe. We then fine the Captains concerned for presenting false manifests as it were, and collect the duties short pain in

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