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" the tax not
being
levied in.
" full and opium being illicitly prepared. If raw
"opium is substituted for
" For / bag of Malwa, whether
"foreign
at
native,
OL
duty of
" I mace is to be charged instead
" of & mace
as
formerly Witherto
" prepared opium,
and the
tax on it is levied together
"with the hoi-fong
"
Faxe as soon
as the opium is imported
" the shops that sell prepared " opium will not be able
on the former
"to carry
" abuses, and the hoi fong
an
Tax will give
increase to the revenue. Petitioners
"are most anxious to serve
the Government in this "matter with which they
they are "Thoroughly acquainted:
For
malwa contained."
1 bag of foreign m
" 48 taelo, and / bag of native 'malwa, 100 faels on which duty
" was charged in proportion. "For the hoi fong tave the de
duty " has been 7/1⁄2 mace for 1 ball of "Patna and 9
for / bag
a cc
" of Malwa, whether native or "foreign, a bag of foreign and
"native Malwa conta
aining 48
" taels and 100 taels respectively,
" on which de
duty.
was
charged
proportionately. For the "monopoly of the hoifong and