Consumption in the Colony; and by laying an amount of local duties on Revenue as you have notice, & to impose such duty as shall have the effect of discouraging the import for re-exportation.
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These instructions are general as they are, must be liable to be further modified, according to circumstances which occur on your arrival at Hong Kong. It has been a primary object of Sir C. Elliot entirely to afford endeavour to effect the legalization of the import of opium into the Ports of China. We are not informed what progress has been made, or may be hoped for, towards impressing the Chinese Govt with a sense of the folly & inexpediency of their prohibition. Their acquiescence or offer would of course wholly alter the state of things on which my future instructions are founded: In the cause of Revenue Representation by Mr Kung
The must be further materially influenced by the state in which other systems may be expected to leave