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MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF PREPARED OPIUM.
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Assuming that Her Majesty's Government, not-
withstanding what has been urged by the Straits Gove.n-
ment and the Hong Kong Government, decides that in
future the regulation of the sale anu manufacture of
opium should be by licences grunted by Government in-
stead of the present farming system it becomes neces-
sary to consider how that scheme can be worked, anu
in the case of Hong Kong how far it woula interfere
with the opium arrangement between China and Hong Kong
In Hong Kong two classes of cases have to
be provided for.
port
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dross
(a) The case of opium manufactured (1) for ex-
(2) for consumption in the Colony
(b) The case of aross-opium manufactured from
The first requirement is that there should
be a Government factory - and store house, adjoining
for broken chests. In that factory all opium required
to be prepared for export or local consumption must
be prepared under Governm nt supervision. Those who
boil for export would ao.so in considerable quantities
and they shoula be licensed, and pay say $30 a Chust
for all they boil and export. Such licensees shoula
be required to enter into bonds to export what they
are allowed to boil and prepare at that rate, anu give evidence of such export - these licensees would be
very limited in number.