"In favor on both counts, both abolishing internal passes and ports setting their fees. Ah, assuming that the crown may impose a tariff on top of whatever fees are required by the port?"

He doesn't particularly want it to be easier to bring in goods from abroad, his specialty is mostly in internal trade. And much of domestic production is currently in shambles, bringing in more imports could be disastrous. 

"If we assume that do the previous votes stand, then?"

"I'm sure we'll return to that question later in any case. Nothing prohibits the committee from overriding its past decisions." He hopes.

"For abolishing internal passes, for ports setting their own fees."

"Who else is a candidate to set the port fees?"

"There's the question of whether the town fathers* sets them, sir," he says, "or the lord of the city, or Her Majesty the Queen."

(*: Alternate translation: "City council," "Senate," "Parliament.")

"Individual docks and their owners. ...I think only in Katapesh, but they do it, and I've heard Taldor used to. The Church of Abadar says they ought to but they say that about everything."

"I wonder that we haven't got an Abadaran. I guess they wouldn't sneak around like I used to do but there ought to be more new ones. Maybe we should go ask around till we can get one."

"The only one I've met is wasting his time on Slavery, like he's going to do anything useful there with the committee half made of slips." Also if there was an Abadaran it might be hard to get things past him so let's not.

The rest of the minutes read almost like a glossary of what terms are relevant to the topic and their meanings, since everyone has different backgrounds. Punctuated by arguing. Jofre calls time when the shadows are yea long.