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The Head Bureau for the suppression of
Opiùm in the Province of Kwong Tung hereby issue this notifica- -tion. We have telegraphed to the Board of Finance on the matter of levying a tax on prepared opium, and received a reply sanctioning our making a trial with the project. It is to be done after the ways or methods that are being used in the Province of Kiang So, and for every tael of prepared opium, the tax is thirty cents. We have instructed all the raw opium deal- mers to examine the permits and tax so much as the weight of the opium may be. This is done in order to investigate into the amount of consumption, and put a restraint upon the smokers. We have already given order to Leung Chiu Tong, master of Kwong Wing Yuen (a raw opium dealer), to get the other shops to join him in this work. We have fixed the lat. day of the 4th. moon (9.5.10) as the date to begin collecting this new tax. Besides sending up a report to H. E. the Viceroy on the matter,
we think it fit to and informing (other officials) the same notify the raw opium dealers, purchasers, smokers and the like
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to obey our notification. It should be understood that the new taxation affects the smokers only, and entertains no prejudice
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to those trading in raw opium. The smokers should obey our order, and pay the tax. Hereafter if any of them be found acting on the contrary, the perpetrators will suffer punishment due to his own fault. Now that the price of opium has risen con- -siderably, it hmmmmax behoves the smokers to feel remorseful, and rid themselves #f their old indulgence. If any of the raw opium dealers be discovered carrying on the trade stealthily, fraudulently, illegally, or nefariously, he will be sent for to give up his licence, and ordered to close his shop, whi-le punishment will be meted out to him as a warning against others, and no leniency will be shown. All of you obey and beware of our special notification. Issued on the 17th. day of the 3rd.
moon in the 2nd. year of the reign of Emperor Suen Tung.