Mce or Individual. I
Date.
1893
& Mar
previous Paper.
TuF 157
► 5 (79)-91717--0202-10-03
subsequent Paper
41160
Trong trọng
No.
"Straits Ceylon ic
3500
Opiim Traffic (Subject.)
Chi going into Committee of Supply 1-
DOMESTIC.
0.0.
3500
RECK
dmiralty
[REG 2 MAK 98)
venti
16. Sir Mark Stewart,-To call attention to the system of Government licences for farming out the retail sale of Opium in British India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, British Borneo, and Shanghai; and to move, That, in the opinion of this House, the system at present in force in British India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong, whereby the retail sale of Opium is farmed out to licencees, who have a pecuniary interest in their increased sale, necessarily tends to spread the vicious habit of indulgence in this drug; that the sale of Opium in India and the Crown Colonies ought to be restricted in accordance with the principles recognised in the legislation of the United Kingdom; and that discretionary powers for such sale should be entrusted only to responsible and carefully selected persons upon whose discretion reliance as to sale may be placed. į Friday 10th March.]
(Minutes.)
Instucas
Run 2/3
$
el
M: Made Fairfield
list attached
Mi Buston will find a good deal of
as to opium
information
Colonies
7341.91.
in our
Eastan
on 3542.91 Hangtong
and 7341. 91. Straits. In Coyla opiurn is
brey
little used.
In the Straits opium and spirits together
make
In
up
two thirds
the
Hong Kong
the revenue.
of the opium
revenue is
it now contributes between one
$ falling!
fifth
and
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