However
on principle successfully
resisted.
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I shall do myself
the honor of writing
more fully by early mail when I have received
from
M. Russell his report on
the whole proceedings.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Servant
B. Marsh
I annex copy of a letter which I have just received from Mr Rupell
forwarding
the
copy of the agreement.
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Enclosure I
CO.272/13704
REC?
REG OCT 86
Memorandum of the bases of Agreement arrived at after discussion between Mr. James Russell, Puisne Judge of Hong Kong, Sir Robert Hart K.C.M.G., Inspector-General of Customs, and Shao Tao Tai, Joint Commissioner for China, and W.- Byron Brenan, Her Majesty's Consul
in pursuance of Article at Tientsin', J Section III of the Agreement between Great Britain and China; signed at Chefoo
on the 13th September 1876, and
of Section 9 of the Additional Article to the said Agreement signed
London, on the 18th July 1885.
—
Mr Russell undertakes that the Government of Hong Kong shall submit to the Legislative Council an Ordinance
for
the regulation of the trade of the Colony in Raw Opium subject to conditions hereinafter set forth, providing
and.
1° For the prohibition of the
import
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