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Fr. Maze! You do not supply them with any forms? Commander Hole: They give us a verbal list.

Hr. Haze: Do they not give a writter statement?

Commander Hole: No.

Mr. Iright: It would be a very good thing to have a

It would make the matter of

recognized form.

investigation very simple.

Hr. Southorn: Do you use forms?

Fr. Tright: In most Ports we insist upon that. Fr. Southorn: What is the law here as regards

manifests?

What ought they to do?

Mr. Lloyd: They should send us in a manifest under the Imports and Exports Ordinance. Mr. Southorn: Both on Imports and Exports? Mr. Lloyd: Yes, but we do not get it.

The only

manifests we get are the statements from the

Macao Junks, only occasionally from the Chinese

junks.

His Excellency. Anyway it seems a case of enforcing

cur own law.

Mr. Southorn:

I was not here at the time, but I

understand that was one of the things which broke down

our Statistical Department

that we could not

get anything like reasonable figures.

My Moos: At Woi-hai-wei we collected dues and

I remember overy Junk: had alist of its cargo.

Whether

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