comes into operation before the end of the said term, they will be unable to carry out this said agreement with your
dp their contract.
menurialists and will throw
Your Memorialists beg to state respectfully to give notice to your Lordship that if the said ordinance comes into operation during this said term and the Chinese Government refuse to carry out this Agreement aforesaid, it will be impossible for Your Memorialists to carry out their Agreement with the Government of Hongkong, and that they will be compelled to throw up the Farm.
Your Memorialists beg further most respectfully to state to Your Lordship that the Representations made to the Government of Hongkong and to Your Lordship, and which led to the introduction and passing of the ordinance against which they now protest,
are
erroneous.
wholly under the Superior Chinese Customs Regulations, an attempt to smuggle raw or prepared
into Canton exposes the offender to severe penalties and the opium to forfeiture, but they say that the finding by the customs officers at Canton of opium raw or prepared, on the person or in the personal luggage of passengers entails only forfeiture of the opium so found, entails no punishment on the bearer, and involves no risk whatever of any penalty.