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Hong Kong opium smokers sell to Hong Kong people at $1 for 1 ball and 2 mace, and the local licensees sell for $1. 1 Ball vs Race. Compradore thinks $2 1/h a ball for all boilers of Opium. This is less than what Opium pays at Canton. It is more than $2 each. The duty altogether brings $102 a chest.
Suggests levy through compradores of 50° or 25th ad valorem on 2000 a month Bengal $500 - 6000 a year.
400 150 Malwa Terciar 103 1200 40 480 7680 for every 259.Freight to Macao or Canton $1 a chest. This plan would work through the Compradores. Other plan of licensing for sale of balls would shut up many houses. Thinks $30 a license per month fair.
Mussett
Estimates of Opium boiled at Swatow
Sto Amei. Secretary of On. Jai Insurance Co. Chairman of Jung Wa Hospital furnishes estimates the opium boiled for export to California yearly at 2,400 chests.
To Australia
For local consumption
1200 730 4,330Chap Lee Satt Chung of Wo Sang Shing Company states that the supply of Foreign Opium is about 2,800 chests of which he supplied from Penang to his Macao. His estimate is therefore 2,500.
Hong Sritai, Compradore to Put Petition, large importer estimates that 1 chest boiled for export daily, for local use, 2 chests.
1824 730 2,883The Wo Ki Company reported to us on 25th December 1852 that they boiled at least 1,680 for export.
February, 1889.
Muswell
Treasurer
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