CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903 — Page 153

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Enclosure in Doyen's Circular No. 116 of 2nd. April 1903.

TREGO-

TREES 8 JUN 03}

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Prince Ch'ing to Mr.Conger.

On the 30th. of the Second Moon of the XXIX Year

of Kuanghsu (March 28th. 1903) I received a report

from the General Post Office to the effect that they

had received a comunication from the Post Master at

the

Shanghai, saying that on the 24th. of the lat. Moon

of the present year a firm of foreign merchants,

"T'ai Ho", (Messrs. Reiss and Company) had come to

the office to receive four registered packages, which

had been sent from India, and which contained jewellery

worth Tls.35000 that according to the Regulations re-

port had thereupon been made to the Customs, and that

a duty of 5 ad valorem had been paid, amounting to

Tis. 1,750, but that they had been informed by the

Bald merchants that there were other foreign firms in

Shanghai that were receiving such parcels through the

post, and that, if they were sent through the foreign

post offices established in China, they could be re-

ceived without the payment of any duty whatever.

They

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