CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12] — Page 253

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NO. 710.

Enclosure 2,

249

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Dear Mr. Anderson,

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1801270 K‡roqzä & adToqui ..iqué

Imports & Experts Office,

Hongkong, 3rd, Movember, 1917.

As the Financial Rules of this Colony

leaves me no discretion in the matter of exemption from payment of duties, I have been obliged to refer your

which letter of the 26th Cotobar last te Government, endorssa my view that the Regulations as ther stand at present scoord to Consular Officers of your country exemption from all search of baggage on their arrival

here and no more.

Unless you are mistaken as to the year

in which your previous import ocourmed, I was the Superintend- ent responsible for the admission of these liquors free of duty, but I have no recellestion of the matter and as the books for 1911 have been destroyed I am unable to ascertain how this importation was accounted for.

I am, &o.,

(sd.) D. W. iratman,

Superintendent.

B. Anderson Esq.,

Consul General for

United States of America.