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Encl. 2 in Despatch of 3rd August 1868.
The Vice Roy Jui to A. M's Connel.
[?]
immediate action to
maller
should
occur
as your
Jee
that
the
before you,
opinion would, if favorable,
Copy
Canton
at once
place
me
in a
position
28th February 1868.
to reply
to any
the Colonial representations of
Government. Finally
The Viceroy has
to Hale
I may
repeat
the provincial Govern-
ment
is in
error
that the Opium Trade is
constantly evaded
by the operations of
smugglers
and that
in view of
the opium imported
is stored at
Thongtuong
and Atao,
it is intended
to now
fix upon
an eligible point
in the direction of
those two places
at which
a central
[Signed]
D. B. Robertson,
H. E. Sir Rutherford Alcock K. C. B.,
Peking.
the fact that
the Coast of Kwangtung
is
from foreign
OW
The
straits
for
Le-kin
that levied at various places
to A.
Your $5.