THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
Corresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e.
English List
Class XV — Imported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c.
I's and Buffalo's Horns
nd Ox hides, tanned and untanned ter skins
ins, large and small
Leopard, and Martin skins
Quer, Racoon, and Shark skins.
King
ARTICLES.
Rabbit, and Ermine skins
orse Teeth
nt's Teeth, 1st quality, whole
2nd broken
25
89
30
30. 39
89
:30
139
43
17
17
XVI-All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable de herein, 5 per cent ad valorem.
Class XVII-All foreign rice, and other grain,
Duty Free
SHIPPING DUES
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an have hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships' and breadth, at so much per chang; but it is now agreed to alter the and charged according to the registered statement of the number of Cargo the Ship may carry. On each ton (reckoned equal to the ontents of 122 tou) a Shipping charge of 5 Mace is to be levied: the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, ad Monthly fees, are to be abolished
Taowkwang, 33rd year, 8th Month,
(July
1843.)
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true abstract—reference numbers to the Alphabetic List being in- serted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having been carefully compared and found correct.)
(Signed) J. ROBT MORRISON,
Chinese Secretary & Interpreter. RICHARD WOOSNAM.
(True Copy)
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG KONG GAZETTE.
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843.
The following is again published by au- thority, for general information
It has been Intely Notified by PROCLA MATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be- tween the hours of eight and ten P. M., they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future be permitted to go out, under any consider ation, unless he can produce a pass in Eng- lish, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A PROCLAMATION has also been issued prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- ment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning. nine o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at
W.CAINE,
CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
AN OVERLAND MAIL to England via Bombny, per "Petrell" will be closed at this Office, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 PM,
A Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per “City of Palaces" will also be closed at 3 P. M., on Wednesday, the 30th instant.
POST OFFICE,
Victoria, 23 August, 1843.
mittee what is now required, its acquaintance with the wants of the Cofony satisfies us that proper men- sures will be taken under the sanction of the Go- vernment. Still we would recommend the imme- diate covering up of the fœtid drains which now give forth the most deleterious miasma.
In London it was remarked that fever was con- stantly engendered in localities destitute of under- ground Sewerage, and by a map of the Sewers it was shown by Dr Southwood Smith, that one could correctly define the limits of the unhealthy districts and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis,
The FRIEND OF INDIA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opium monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds If this source of revenue is continued to India for three years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out.
By the Calcutta papers we learn that Assam Tea Co
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The duty on Tobacco in England is above per Cent. and Lord Congleton states that thi fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland of the Board of Trade, proved before the Impo believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Port Daty Committee in 1840, that 48 per Cent. of t whatever; and that the loss to the revenue French Silks imported into England paid no du smuggled French brandy was £500,000 a year. The Premium on the illi
sestimated introduction of French goods into England w in 1881, for Gold trinkets, 0 to 10 per Cent. Silv Cent, and Spirits 80 per Cent. 10 to 12; Silk goods 22 to 25 per Cent., Tea 50
Goods of the value of £2,000,000 were smuggl In the same Report, it is stated that Brit into France across the Belgian frontier, besides large amount through the Channel ports.
On the Belgian frontier dogs are trained convey the smuggled goods into France. Betwe 1820 to 1830 not fewer than 40,278 smuggl
dogs were destroyed by the French Custom Hou officers, who receive three francs (8) for each England was truly enormous, and in that and t In 1822 the cost of preventing smuggling following year there were captured on the Co engaged in the contraband trade, 52 vessels a 385 boats. The seizures in one half year we valued at £ 67,000,
Lord Congleton (late Sir Henry Parnell) 1831, estimated the total annual cost of protecti the revenue at from £700,000 to £800,0 Then there were 116 persons under confineme and 64
The tong in the navy for snuggling offenc the customs and excise revenues of the Uni charge for collecting and protecti Kingdom, was £2,309,611 in the year 1840.
In 1835 the number of persons employed the department
in the excise 6,072.
the customs was 11,600 ⇓)
The present Acts relating to Smuggling are 1 3rd and 4th of William IV., Cap. 53, and 4 and William IV., Cap. 13.
We have only space to enable us refer to the Government Notification w respect to Land. It is not such a one many of our readers would expect, s we think it is so far satisfactory, that now know we shall soon be relieved fro the distressing suspense which has for ser time paralysed the Colony-
We are not surprised at the wording Lord Stanley's despatch, seeing that in t last Crown Colony which had been est blished, New Zealand, there had been su flagrant land jobbing, and peculation almost every member of that colonial G vernment (vide No. 48.) ́
Our readers well know, that there do not exist even a suspicion, of similar condu on the part of the officials here this have often had occasion to say, as a val rgument for losing no longer time, giving the holders titles to their lands.
The large powers which it is well knov are wisely confided to HE (whose the rough acquaintance with our best interes And cse sincere desire to promote then leads us to be quite sanguine of a high satisfactory result.
There was much delay, and as mai “ings about the Comme.
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