To.89.
REC?
C.O.
4729
HIS MAJESTY'S CONSULAIREA TREE, 07,
TIENTS I F,
December 11th, 1906.
193
Sir:-
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Cir-
cular Despatch of the 1st instant, inclosing translation
of certain Proposals in ten articles for carrying out the
prohibition of opium; and in accordance with your tele-
cram of yesterday's date, I now have the honour to report
certain action taken by the Viceroy of this Province in
connexion with these Proposals.
By order of the Viceroy, the Customs Taotai has ad-
dressed to the various Consuls a formal Despatch,
dated
the 7th December, of which the following is the effect.
The Viceroy informs the Customs Tectai that he had
just received from the Council of State (Hai I Cheng Wu
Ch'u), a Despatch cribodying certain proposed regulations
for prohibiting opium, which having received the Imperial
assent were to be promulgated throughout the Empire.
The
Viceroy observes that the opium habit is a time-wasting,
Sir J. Jordan, K.C.M.G.,
&C.,
*C.,
&c.
loss-bringing