Ofício do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan, Yang, ao procurador de Macau, sobre a compra de rapé
This imperial edict, issued on the 28th day of the seventh month in the 41st year of the Qianlong reign (1776), is a formal proclamation by Yang, Magistrate of Xiangshan County, addressed to foreign headmen—including Wei Li’an and Wei Li Duo—operating in the Macau region. The document concerns the m...
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1776-09-10
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/4IFGT42F/viewer_4IFGT42F.html |
| Summary: | This imperial edict, issued on the 28th day of the seventh month in the 41st year of the Qianlong reign (1776), is a formal proclamation by Yang, Magistrate of Xiangshan County, addressed to foreign headmen—including Wei Li’an and Wei Li Duo—operating in the Macau region. The document concerns the mandatory procurement and supply of tribute commodities, specifically 400+ taels of foreign opium and patterned glass bottles of an approved type, under established tributary regulations. It records that these items had been received and inventoried, with valuation submitted for official review, and directs the County Magistrate to despatch an official to Macau to procure and deliver the required quantity without discretion. The edict admonishes repeated delays in compliance, rejects excuses relating to vessel non-return from the “Lesser Western Ocean”, and censures prior secret sales as gravely inappropriate and requiring immediate correction. Marginalia identify the document as No. 313 in the Ding Series, No. 46, with a later circular seal of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce dated June 1904 and a manuscript annotation “T46”. The text reflects Qing administrative procedures governing foreign trade and tribute obligations in the Pearl River Delta during the late eighteenth century, providing primary evidence of regulatory enforcement, commodity control, and Sino-foreign commercial interaction at the Macau frontier. |
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