!
1
10
opium
eat on
on
the
board to smoke or
voyage,
that this
would be regarded
as an intolerable inconvenience
by the Chinese, and that in view
in the
the
the enormous number of such passengers consequent aggregate loss to
the
year farmer would be very considerable. The Attorney-General was of opinion
n that
the words proposed to be added were unnecessary, the object
ad in view would in practice
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practice probably be obtained through the operation of the legal principle, de minimis non curat lex. Having
doubt
As
Some
to this, and considering it only reasonable that
passengers
should be free to
take a moderate amount
mn on
opium
to
board with them,
for consumption on the voyage, without breaking the law, (to say nothing of the desirability of not exposing the farmer to avoidable loss) I left the
any
question