CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9] — Page 14

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Enclosure 2.

12:13

(RECE 6 JUN 367

Chamber of Commerce to Col. Secretary.

Sir,

of your

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Hong Kong General Chamber of Commercy

29th April, 1896.

I beg to acknowledge receipt letter of the 24th instant on

the subject of the duches leviable in Jan pan on British crued goods from For.

may be transhipped at

mosa which

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Hong Kong, in which after citing showing that on satisfactory proof of the

origin

and destination of

the

cargo

were

being given, the customs charges refunded by the Japanese Government, Prough it was considered doubtful whether the treatment then accorded

could be generally claimed as a right,

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