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broquettoa jneoer to doærðaďk ivawfla¢ gnixus1⁄4-kærfgrasia no nixia

.8000*

ejoйf a beaɛeibhs wĩ v❤ is¥ end,.Ntā valí no

efqtəntiq eɗt beatngoost vand doliw ni rejalnių alydaola al of

Holdw bra bisq mend and yìub drogul foliiw no aboon mistot JanT

gns of betoajɗun ed torneo eetsoititreo noltamexe vď betevoo eTA

mor? #kanaté ni dallɗw midhi to snutan edit ni aegraño Tandvi

welv at tæt (Jerawod (betsta vest .Tantons of dro¶ ydası” ano

antoɗiejaw bre extoɗfist gointovog snoltibroo tuenettib edit to

sraw anklegume bna buart Jasverg of anoktsinger Latosqu olttari

Isten D-rotseqani gnitoå snt yɗ qu mwarb eď hlrow bus „bertures

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avoda art to tqieser sốt galabelwomios ni

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yawitan golžits”

-slugor gniðtanb nt færið betaengua vetelnik «*yðastsḤ al¤ ̧##0#

sit aetsoltisseo nológuaxe to suast eds of brager ddiw anolt-

bas ngierot to troqemand eɗd not anoktalwyaf Isnolaivor¶"

svτee blow "struñfons" nt atroq beneqo yiwan art of aboog evitan

Vino Jom anoijsluger suorit tebril „tnabeos7q vrotostaitaa s na

➡tanoo dołdw no souborg svitan osim tud aboog myterot blaq-yjub

edt to moitgo mit ja „Jrşim bisq need bar y‡ub-Nai shart-

merchant, be provided with an exemption certificate when being

transported from the Treaty Ports of Tientsin, Newchwang etc.,

to the newly opened ports in Manchuria.

Copies of the above correspondence were

forwarded to the Foreign Office on May 11th., and in commenting

on the Wai Wu Pu's communication His Majesty's Minister pointed

out that whilst the Board had recognised the right of duty-paid

foreign goods covered by exemption certificate to freedom from

likin whilst in transit from one Treaty Port to another,

the

treatment to the accorded to native produce still remained a

question of considerable difficulty. From a memorandum prepared

by Mr. Acheson, Likin Commissioner at Soochow, on the working of

the likin system in Kiangsu, it appeared that the Province has

to provide annually out of its likin revenue the sum of

2,000,000 Taels towards the payment of the Anglo-German Loan of

1898, and in Mr. Acheson's opinion the discharge of this

obligation is incompatible with the immunity from taxation of

native produce which has paid coast-trade duty. His Majesty's

Minister expressed the view that the extension of the Railways

of China would probably bring its own solution of the difficulty

and force the Chinese Government to reform its system of taxa❤

-tion.

On May 26th. the Wai Wu Pu again addressed

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