Macao is a seaport town and settlement of the Portuguese in China, seventy miles SSE of Canton. The principal inhabitants are Chinese and there are Portuguese, English, Americans & c. The trade of Macao was formerly restricted to the Portuguese and Spanish shipping but now it is chiefly English and American. The settlement has no export product itself. The Portuguese authorities and others form a Senate, a Governor and a Council but the government of native inhabitants is substantially vested in a Chinese Mandarin. It was granted to the Portuguese subject to an annual rent by the Chinese Emperor in 1856 in return for assistance against pirates. In 1863 the payment of this tribute was rescinded and the land conceded by treaty to Portugal but jurisdiction over the Chinese inhabitants retained.
in "Street's Indian and colonial mercantile directory", 1869
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