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one
year
3205,000 a
Mr
and S. Pan King Sing's
year for
three
Gears
As the advertirement had invited
tenders for one, two or
three
years-
the latter, on the recommendation of the Excentive Council, was accerted
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The farem
was cold cubject
to the irovisions of the Idinance $2
1 1858 and an amending,
which
was read
amending Ordinance
first time in the
Legislative Conncil on the 21th December 1878 by which the Governor take
hower to arpoint excise officers to Seck more effectually the preparation and cale of prepared Opium within
ord. 1 of 1879
the Colony, and to requlate the
quantity manufactured and the
transfer
F
stocks at or
o
near the
time when the exclusive privilege
Expires
6. The
face
thank the Revenne
from the Opium Farm in Hongkong chould be thus cuddenly increased
by Zitty five per cent is universally admitted throughout the Colony to be owing in a great measure to the fact that the Officer who practically conducted the sale for Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy had not a very
profound knowledge of the business habits of the Chinese, nor did be