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Inclosure

2 in No. 11

Sir B. Robertson reported to Sir T. Wade

11 Cd.1628/76. on the 18th. January, 1876, d that he was "still

Inclosure

2 in No.12

of opinion that the remedy will be found in the appoint- whose -ment of a European Chinese Consul or Vice-Consul, duty it would be to check the cargoes of Junks and re-

port thereon to the Customs Authorities at Canton. This

would at least be a legitimate plan and such as practis- -ed by the U. S. Consul in cases of vessels arriving from

and clearing for America".

On the 8th. February, 1876,

Mr.

P. Ryrie,

in Cd.1628/76. the Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce

MASUSI .50

No. 14 in Cd. 1628/76.

wrote to the Earl of Carnarvon, with reference to the proposed establishment of a branch of the Foreign Customs Inspectorate in Hongkong, that the Chamber earnestly hoped that the proposal would never recaive the consent of His Majesty's Government. "Such an *establishment" he added, *would not attain the object "in view, that of fr.eing merchandize after leaving this *8olony from further impositions; it would divest the *Colony of every vestige of its pretensions to a free

"port and, which is a still more serious objection, "would involve a loss of dignity to the Crown,

subvert

the Royal authority among the native population of the "colony, lower the respect in which the British Govern- *ment is now held, and render of no avail the protect-

-ion which it extends to the thousands of Chinese

*located here".

Meanwhile it was discovered by the in-

-vestigations of Sir B. Robertson that the native trade between Hongkong and the mainland of China was subjected to the payment of double duty, that is to say, the Foreign Tariff Duties imposed under the Treaty of Tientsin on the trade carried on with China by British

subjects, in addition to the "nei ti shu"() #t #) or

native