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having nothing whatever to do with the cargo of their ship; that this cargo is under the control of the compradore and his under- lings and that their position can be made very lucrative by accept- ing an excess of freight than is called for by the shipping ordera iasued by the company, 6.g. a shipper will obtain a shipping order from the agent of the vessel to ship say at Tientsin 5000 packages Samehu wine and pay freight to the company on that amount but may ship 500 or more in excess in collusion with the compradore, with the result that on arrival in the Colony the 5000 packages on the freight list are bonded or partly transhipped and the exce66

is passed into local consumption without payment of duty,

Periodical tally of large consignments becomes necessary and to this end the searching party will be of great service in addition to the check which will be applied at the landing stages.

a most useful

B.

Preventive

A

I would submit thaya

The Water Police has been and is adjunct to the Revenue Office in effecting/measures afloat in its

andr ordinary rounds of policing service in this help should be main- tained and encouraged as it must be contemplated that smuggling will always be attempted. As an encouragement not only to the but also Water Police whose help has been gratuitously given to all others Land Police and Revenue Officers also searchers

and watchmen in the pay of the Colony seizure reward be instituted by which seizing officers will receive 20% of the net proceeds of the wine confiscated and 10%

Informers giving information of the fine inflicted leading to a seizure resulting in confiscation and/or fine to receive 30% and 10% respectively. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports to be given power to make these awards after inves- tigating minutely all cases and deciding on their merits.

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if any.

Suggestions concerning:-

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