CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 69

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are other ways of collecting the revenue, treal Hong/zony as within the

China,

We might e.g.

Customs area

opicra hium

on all

g

a ubate

as far

q

the

as

Con-

is concerned, and lovry an import duty

opiam, giving tax to ther ofpreem farmer on opium

the colony:

China a lump

in the

-Sumed in

∙late to

pay

teim

: or we might in pe

antually sum for a

so tam years,

such sum

to

net collection a

represent the average leave the mode of collection. quite open, but the expat duży is. I imagine, the simplest a mos? practical flan. There are objections to it: it lobs Hong Kong of the prestige of being a free port- though fact as regard: opium it is not free alreader; and if it is stars

as a matter

effective

we shall lose revenue

for

the opriam farmer, deprived of pickings, with lid less than before.

We need only consider

opium. I think,

In connexion with smuggling. Arms

Can alream be dealt with by proclamation;

2 Iventare to recommend that we

as above to the

matte an offer alive

Chinese Jodelle while summarily

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The marked I

the 17 reta

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rejecting Sir R Hant's proposals.

M. Cook haut states- page 17926- that the boundary fixed or the convention "would render smuggling an eaty

which, in view of the pledge gaben

matter

to

China ought to be avoided. He thinks 2 Sir W-Hamilton that if we

agrees

collect their custome we might sth that the Nothic boundary should be modified. This is the last point of importance to notice: it is dealt with on pp. 17 and 18 of the repa. Map-10. shove the additional territory which M. Lockhart

acquire. He luges

Shows that the proposal for a modified boundary has already been scut to Pekin-

wants us to

Deep

that

the convention Boundary which is the Phutest line from boy to boy

Thigs are ther

baast is not a natrual boundary

and

Cuts a homogeneone district in two leaving the line the centre

Just beyond

district- the town Sham Chun!

of

the

I think we had better leave the natural bornday & argument alone : it the natural boundary might be

lary might be found inside inhead of the convention line fasted outside

Nor had we better raise again

question of

the merg

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the

the bays: it