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INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS,

PEXING,

27th June, 1898.

Sir:

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of

Your Excellency's despatch of 24th June informing me

that you have received a communication from Her

Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

asking you, in view of the recent leasing to Great

Britain of part of Kowloon Peninsula and the adjacent

islands, what arrangements the Imperial Maritime

Customs of China would propose and where stations

would be placed and in reply to state in the follow-

ing numbered paragraphs what, in my opinion, will be

necessary in and around Hong Kong and its new

territory to safe-guard the revenue interests of China

a task which will be made in consequence of the in-

creased area to be looked after, both onerous and

expensive. The proposals are made in the belief

Sir C.M.MacDonald, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.,

&C.;

&c.,

&C.,

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that