to Treaty regulation, and I have therefore the honour to request telegraph without delay to the Governor of Kiangsi requesting
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Petition from Kan-chou Fu Opium Merchants:
+ SEVERAL firms of Kan-chou (Kiangsi), raw opium merchants, concerning a breach of Treaty by an increase in the opium pa, al beg General to send a telegram with a view to abolishing the +5, **traders in their difficulty. Kffice or Individual. We, the petitioners, have been dealing in opium at Kan-chou. All of it came via the North River, in Kuang-tung Province, to the present all has gone on quietly, and there has been "wei-yüan" has come to Kan-chou, with orders from his superiors to collect a levy. dest deuts. N foreign opium at the rate of 1 K'u-ping silver tael on every picul of raw opium. The title "Subscription on Prepared Opium" would be appropriate, but for the fact that at Kan-chou there are no prepared opium shops, and therefore it really means raw opium. By the Convention of Chefoo of the 13th day of September, opium from any further tax or duty whilst in transport in the interior, provided the packages have not been opened, and that the Customs seals are intact, and that the packages have not been effaced or tampered with. providin "Now, as this method of taxing at Kan-chou is on packages which have not been opened, it is evidently a new tax, and contrary to Treaty; and we beg you to help us in our need, and to telegraph to the Governor to countermand the whole levy, and so reassure the merchant community by good and fitting action. We are, &c. (Signed) (Certain Opium Merchants)No 30309
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