altogether refuse to meet
the professed desire of the Siamese Government to put
some
check upon a trade
which is stated to be injurious
to the people of siam, it would not be possible to
concede to them such absolute
power over
over the sale of intoxicans
as would be conferred
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by
danses I and 5 of the above proposals.
It
It will be seen
reference to
pages
on
385
2 and 3
of mother memorandum also inclosed, that in 1867
a
Convention was
agreed upon
between France and Siam,
under which no
foreign
spirits could be sold without
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license subject to a tax
not exceeding forty five
Tecals, but which the Siamese
Government had no power
to