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Excerpt from The Treaty-Rights of the Foreign Merchant, and the Transit-System, in China
Sale of Transit-certificates, in 1866, at Ningpo - The Commissioner of Customs' unfair statement of the case - The Foreign Custom-house responsible for the practice of open infringement of Customs' rules - What became of a sum, exceeding paid, in 1866, by way of Commutation-dues at Ningpo - What of a sum total of about of similar origin - Faulty arithmetic of the Inspector General - Errors in Customs' Returns - Fines and Confiscations State of the Wusung Bar - The Chinese Customs, Mr. Wade, and the British Merchant - Mr. Wade's groundless alarm - Tendency of British Representatives in Peking to favour the Chinese - History of the confiscation-case of Messrs. Bower Hanbury - Illegality of the confiscation proved - How the British Merchant in China is protected by the British Minister - The Sun-yang claims of Messrs. J ardine, Matheson Co. - Disadvantages, under which foreign merchants are placed touching the payment of le-hin - The Tsung-li Ya-men's own Hart - First-fruits of Mr. Hart's appointment The Ya-men proposes new regulations respecting trade on the river Yangtsze, the transit-system, and the coast-trade - Sir Frederick Bruce's Notification of his Revised Provisional Regulations for British Trade in the Yangtsze River, and Regulations (sanctioned by Mr. Bruce) regarding transit-dues, Exemption Certificates, and coast-trade Duties - Promulgation of corresponding docu ments by the Tsung-li Ya-men - Ofiensive style of the latter - Sir Frederick Bruce represented as in the Service of China - Transla tion of the Ya-men's proposed Five Regulations respecting War Taxes payable at inland stations, coast-trade Duties, and Exemp tion Certificates apparently withheld from the knowledge of Her Majesty's Government - Essential discrepancies between the English text of Sir Frederick Bruce's Regulations regarding transit-dues.
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