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passed, providing that the Superintendent of Imports and Exports should furnish the master of every opium-
carrying vessel with a memorandum in the form of a
permit to export so many chests of opium, without
which permit he could not sail. A duplicate of the memorandum was to go to the Customs officer at the
port of destination.
The appointment of English Commissioners to negotiate with the Chinese Government on the subject of amendments to the Anglo-Chinese commercial treaties and other trade questions, has incidentally resulted in the revival of the proposal to allow the Imperial Maritime Customs to officiate in Hong Kong.
Mr Jamieson, Commercial Attache to His
Majesty's Legation at Peking, has submitted a memo-
randum, in which he points out the anomalies of the
present regulations relating to International, West
River and Inland Waters Trade, and makes two main
suggestions towards a remedy for them. The first is h that in order to do away with the disadvantages under which cargo, carried in vessels entering the West River from Hong Kong or Macao direct, labours; the first stage, Kongmoon, be constituted "a Treaty port and that dues on such goods as are destined for points higher up the river be paid them". But this is open
to objection, on the score of the inconvenience and risk of opening and examining at Kongmoon cargo not consigned to that port. He therefore prefers the other
suggestion, which is that "a section of the Hong Kong Harbour be set apart for all junks and other craft,
except foreign vessels desiring to load to Treaty
ports
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