stop the illicit preparation & sale of "handos". A further objection is
Confl. 182 suggested for Coupe for, to govern
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ment undertaking the direct control; this is not quite answered by Marsh (in parag. 2) because the Hongkong Government, besides issuing licenses (similar to spirit licenses in this corporation), is causing the licensees generally to prepare Spicem in a Factory
under its arm supervision. This however may be said to be altogether unnecessary for preventing ... to be kept out of the Colony, at the Anti-opium agitators cannot logically object to Government taking
the best means & for securing in full taxation from it, & for moral purpose, illicit boiling; and it is not really affected by issuing many Licenses, while Economically the new plan is much better than the Farming system. Approve what has been done under the circumstances, as temporary measure, and ask for full reports of the success of
the undertaking, when it has been in force, say four months, in order that it may be considered whether it would be better to return to the Monopoly system next year, or not.
G.W.J. 2 May.
I agree in thinking that the new arrangement does not wish to ... by having a matter of fact in recent events to set up a defence too of the system of Farming Revenue which has existed for a long time out of ... in our Parliament.
The opium Farm was peach broken down last clay in Singapore, & it is probable that the Straits Government will have to base Revenue on ...
The Merits of opium ...