First Appendix to the Third Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons, And, Minutes of Evidence on the Affairs of the East-India Company: 17th February to 6th October 1831 (Classic Reprint)

East India Company Court of Directors, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Select Committee on the East India Company

ISBN 10: 0364675063 / ISBN 13: 9780364675069

Published by Forgotten Books, 2020

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Facsimile reprint. Printed by order of the Honourable Court of Directors by J.L. Cox, London, 1831.

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• Title: First Appendix to the Third Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons, And, Minutes of Evidence on the Affairs of the East-India Company: 17th February to 6th October 1831 (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0364675063
• ISBN 13: 9780364675069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Excerpt from First Appendix to the Third Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons, And, Minutes of Evidence on the Affairs of the East-India Company<br/><br/>I. A great addition must be made in the number of mandarin merchants, or we must be allowed to trade freely with whom we please. New men will not offer to join the Hong, unless they have assurance that they may retire at their pleasure. They will not offer so long as they are forced to secure ships, thereby answering for the conduct of people whom they cannot control, and being in consequence exposed to the extortions and indignities of the government officers in the Hoppo department. New men will not come in when they are forced to succeed to a load of previously contracted debts and duties therefore.