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and Custom Forve how could it
be said not to be duty paid? The
practicable way ii me only practicable
my-
opinion of getting any proper
revenue out of opium.
Port is by levying
in a free
a tay on
manufactured article, just
the
ad (
manufactured tobacco, or on spirits. Opium in the raw state is not
usable. It has to be made fit for
smoking,
and the raising of.
tay on it is just like rais
by distilling
raisiing o
o a
a tay
licences or the
the duty
on spirits or
duty
on tabacco.
dently of Revenue.
• His Excellency,
I have 1.
(igned) I. Russell.
Chief Justice.
Sir W. Robinson, K. C.M.G.
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To diminish consumip-
tion of opium, to get
atr
adequate
revenue and to help China to
put dover si
emruggling I am
satisfied the farming septem
properly controlled will, under local
circumstances, best carry
out Lord
Kuntford's wish to diminish the
evils of the opium traffic indepen-
dently.
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