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Enclosure No.2 in Mr. Jamieson's despatch No.114, General Series,
to Sir John Jordan.
Sir,
Canton, 31st October, 1909.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
despatch of October 18th. regarding the regulations restricting
the sale of raw opium promulgated by the Provincial Authorities
in which you inform me that you are in receipt of a telegram
from His Majesty's Minister, instructing you to see that
restrictions on the sale of foreign opium are removed.
I find that the Opium Prohibition Bureau some time
ago ordered all native opium shops to register themselves and
take out licences. These regulations were issued, with the
Imperial sanction, by the Government Council, to all provinces
alike, and were not brought into being in Kuangtung alone.
AB
regards the regulation compelling purchasers of opium to obtain
licenses before opium may be sold to them, it was issued under
Imperial sanction, and the Authorities of this Province have
no power to alter or abrogate it.
In your despatch you assert that the opium hongs
never agreed to the permit system and were all along selling
to buyers without permits". Even if what you say is a fact,
it is clear that the Chinese opium honge infringed the
regulations, and the result, namely the sealing of their shops
and the imposition of a fine, is entirely their own fault.
the Liang Khang,
Jl. Jamieson, boy, Ome
Aris. Conant-General, Conten.
Liang