Ofício do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan, Yang, ao procurador de Macau, sobre a compra de rapé, para ser enviado a corte
This archival document is an Imperial Edict issued on the 27th day of the seventh month in the forty-second year of the Qianlong reign (1777 CE), addressed by Magistrate Yang, Presiding Magistrate of the Prefecture, to foreign headmen in Macau—including Amsa Tó and others. The edict concerns the reg...
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1777-08-27
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Archival Document Provenance
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Historical Weights and Measures
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Macau Foreign Headman
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Magisterial Authority Guangdong
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Opium Confiscation
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Opium Valuation
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Qianlong Reign Imperial Edict
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Qing Dynasty Maritime Policy
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Silver Currency Transactions
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Sino-Foreign Joint Oversight
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Tobacco Trade Governance
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/H9EKHA34/viewer_H9EKHA34.html |
| Summary: | This archival document is an Imperial Edict issued on the 27th day of the seventh month in the forty-second year of the Qianlong reign (1777 CE), addressed by Magistrate Yang, Presiding Magistrate of the Prefecture, to foreign headmen in Macau—including Amsa Tó and others. The edict concerns the regulation and valuation of opium, tobacco, and silver currency transactions under joint Sino-foreign oversight. It records the submission of one *lá* of superior-grade opium (part of a ten-*lá* consignment) at six silver taels per *lá*, totalling sixty taels; details expenditures on silver flowers (*hua yin*) amounting to 160 *yuan*; specifies two chests of tobacco totalling 205½ *lá*, valued at 571 *yuan*; and confirms the confiscation of snuff and tobacco valued collectively at 571 silver taels, with payment dispatched via domestic servant and receipt (*lingzhuang*) required. Marginalia include administrative notations (e.g., ‘T59’, ‘two-fifths outstanding’), red-ink annotations indicating inspection and edict validation, and a central imperial stamp. The text employs period-specific units (*lá*, *yuan*, *tael*), colonial-era transliterations, and terminology reflective of Qing-era commercial governance in Macau, offering primary-source evidence for scholarly analysis of Sino-foreign regulatory frameworks, fiscal administration, and opium trade logistics in late eighteenth-century maritime China. |
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