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comparatively easy when the revenue had dwindled to 1 1/2 ... possibly to $1 1/2.
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Next, the cost of ... prevented collection would be indefinitely increased. Smuggling into the Colony is now ... by the farmer at his own expense, and smuggling from the Colony into China by the department of the Imperial Chinese Customs which is ... materially assisted by provision whereby the possession ... one in the possession by any Colony except the farmer of raw opium in quantities of less than one chest is rendered illegal. If we issued a number ... we ... of licenses, should, as already stated create a corresponding number of centres for smuggling into China, and we should be put to great expense in watching them to prevent smuggling from the Colony, for it must be remembered that