CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 225

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15.

Chamber passed the following resolutions:-

13.

(1) that the Customs office be no

longer permitted to collect duties

in the Colony or its waters:

(3) that all opium arriving in the

Colony be accounted for either

through the agency of bonded

warehouses or otherwise:

(3) that the Government do all in their

power to protect the Chinese revenue,

more especially with regard to the

Opium Farmer:

(4) that the revenue stations and revenue

cruisers be moved beyond the limits

of British territory and British

waters.

Meanwhile Sir R. Hart in a letter to Sir C.M. Macdonald, His Majesty's Minister

at Peking, dated the 27th June, 1898,

recommended that in view of the leasing to Great Britain of the New Territories, "the

right of the Chinese Customs to maintain ite

office in Hong Kong

where it is now only

unofficially acknowledged

ought to be formally

admitted and the status of the Commissioner

of Customs as a Chinese official recognized. The existing substation at Changahow,

Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotoohow ought

to be maintained as at present, although

they are in the leased territory. If it

should