Stockley handed to the Commissioner of Customs a letter signed by. the British Consul-General, stating the facts concerning the matter. The letter states that the Customs Bank had refused to accept payment of the Treaty and surtax' duties, wharfage and conservancy dues, tendered by Messrs. Gande, Price & Ca. and that in auch refusal the amount Tls. 48.
Apparently from the last clause in the agreement the Commissioner of Customs may at any time cancel the agreement without assigning any reason.
On August 2, the defendants] applied for a "general discharge permit" of the cargo of the str. Philoctetes, which was duly granted and also a "permit" to discharge! corge into lighters and convey Holt's Wharf. And the master of the str. Philoctetes received an had been deposited at the British Consulate-General, at the disposal of the Commissioner of Customs and order from the Ocean Steamship Go. to discharge cargo into godowns on Holt's Wharf dated tthe letter concludes with.
"The provisions of Articles 24 and 33 of the Treaty of Tientsin having been complied with, I am_ informing th® British fern con-
August 2. This has been duly' Jcarried out and the property of the plaintiffs, the 75 cases of lager deer, is now in the godowns of the defendants at Holt's Wharf. There
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