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Your Lordship asks me to consider and report
this
some
whether it would not be possible to repeat the experiment of placing traffic directly under Government, or by other modification of the ~ -existing system to diminish the evil resulting from it without seriously crippling
the Revenue.
matter
I have given this ~
my
earnest consideration
and
and have had several
consultations in regard to
it with His Honour the
Chief Justice.
We have come to
the conclusion, a conclusion.
in which the Executive ~
Conneil concurs, that it
would be impossible
to
diminish the evil of the ~ Opium traffic by abolition of the existing
an
system.
I have asked dir
ding.
Russell