70.185
Hongkong.
Conclosure!
Conclosure 2
My Lord,
C. O.
29050
Government House
63
Hongkong, 10th. July, 1908.
I have the honour to transmit for
the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following
Ordinance entitled:-
An Ordinance to prohibit the Exportation of
Prepared Opium to China and to French Indo-
-China.
2.
The customary report by the
Attorney-General is annexed.
3.
The origin of this legislation is
to be found in paragraph 4 of the Memorandum handed to
Sir John Jordan by the Ministers of the Wai Wu Pu on the
29th. November, 1906, where the proposal to prohibit the
importation of Prepared Opium from Hongkong into China was
made for the first time: and the negotiations on the
subject between this Government and the Government of
China, which were initiated in accordance with the
30. 31339
instructions contained in Lord Elgin's telegram of the
4th.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
&c.
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