THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.
CHINA
CONFIDENTIAL.
March 10, 1930.
SECTION 2.
[F 1331/101/10]
(No. 44.
No. 1.
Sir M. Lampson to Mr. A. Henderson.-(Received March 10.)
Confidential.)
HIS Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith copy of despatch No. 343 from His Majesty's consul-general, Shanghai, dated the 17th December, 1929, respecting banking and handling of the customs revenue at Shanghai.
Peking, January 13, 1930.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Consul-General Garstin to Sir M. Lampson.
(No. 343. Confidential.) Sir,
Shanghai, December 17, 1929. ON receipt of your despatch No. 347 of the 17th November, I wrote semi-officially to the Commissioner of Customs requesting him to be good enough to give me any information which might be available concerning the present arrange- ments at Shanghai for the banking and handling of the customs revenue.
2. In reply, Mr. Myers informed me that his share in the transaction was confined to ensuring that the revenue was duly received by the Customs collecting bank, and that the handling was entirely in the hands of the Inspector-General. Thereupon, upon reference by me to the Inspector-General direct, Mr. Maze kindly authorised the preparation, for your confidential information, by the financial secretary of the memorandum, copy of which I have the honour to enclose. Mr. Commijs, in forwarding to me this memorandum, adds that the "Chinese Government have maintained the old system of leaving the handling of revenue entirely in the Inspector-General's hands, and have, in fact, increased his responsi- bilities in this respect by placing under his immediate control all the extră-50-li native customs establishments in the Wuhu district, and by giving him quasi-control of two important native customs establishments in Anhwei and Kiangsu- Fengyangkuan and Yangyukuan, respectively." He understands, further, that it is the intention of the Government to gradually extend customs control on these lines, as the opportunity offers, and if peace is restored.
I have, &c.
(In the absence of the consul-general),
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
A. P. BLUNT.
Revenue Collection and Disposal-existing Procedure Outlined.
(Confidential.)
Shanghai. The merchant pays his duty (old tariff and additional duty and surtax) at the Maritime Customs collecting bank. Every morning the bank hands in to the customs revenue accountant's office five cashier orders, three payable directly to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, one for foreign revenue, one for native customs revenue, and one for tonnage dues; and two other cashier orders payable to the Central Bank of China, one for additional duty and surtaxes for the credit of the Inspector-General's Revenue Suspense Account, and one for the Shanghai Commissioner's Wharfage and Conservancy Dues Account.
Foreign revenue and native customs revenue lodged daily in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank is distributed four times monthly to the Inspector-General's Foreign Revenue Account and Inspector-General's Native Customs Revenue
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