The Treaty-Rights of the Foreign Merchant, and the Transit-System, in China (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The Treaty-Rights of the Foreign Merchant, and the Transit-System, in ChinaSale 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.