OPIUM AGREEMENT
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Opium so marked an in stock in Hongkong must be exported to a Chinese port within seven days of the signature of the Agreement.
All other uncertificated Indian opium shall for a period of two months from the date of the signature of the Agreement be landed at the ports of Shanghai and Canton only, and at the expiration of this period all Treaty Ports shall be closed to uncerti- ficated opium provided the Chinese Government have obtained the consent of the other Treaty Powers.
The Imperial Maritime Customs shall keep a return of all uncertificated opium landed at Shanghai and Canton during this period of two months, other than opium marked and labelled as provided above, and such opium shall pay the new rate of consolilated import duty and shall not be re-exported in bond to other Treaty ports.
In addition to the annual reduction of 5,100 chests already agreed upon, His Majesty's Government agree further to reluce the import of Indian opium during each of the years 1912, 1913 and 1914 by an amount equal to one-third of the total ascertained amount of the uncertificated Indian opini in bond in Chinese Treaty Ports, and in stock in Hongkong on the date of signature, plus one-third of the amount of uncertificated. Indiin opium lauded during the ensuing two months at Sh hai vnd Chutia.
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Done at Peking his eighth day of May one thousand nine hundred and deren, being the bath day of the burth mouth of the third year of Hsuan Tung,
IN. JORDAN.
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TƯỢC CHIA-Lại.
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