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We have the honour to acknowledge receipt
of your letter of today's date enclosing for our information
translation of a report of the Opium Prohibition Bureau at
Canton which was forwarded to H. B. M's. Consul-General by the
Governor-General of the Liang Kwong Provinces.
1.
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In the first paragraph of the report it is
stated that the tax is collected on prepared opium and not on
raw opium. This is not true, and the various permits and receipt/
which we have obtained and which were handed to you show con-
-clusively that the tax is levied on whole balls of opium
bearing the I. M. Customs transit certificates which according
to the additional articles to the Chefoo Convention are supposed
to free the opium from any taxation until it reaches the place
of consumption.
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2.
We cannot believe that the reason for the
regulation requiring purchasers to boil down the opium within
3 days from the date of purchase is to prevent the opium from
being stored. Prepared opium can be stored just as well as raw
opium and as a matter of fact improves by keeping. We must
strongly protest against this unnecessary interference with the
freedom of our trade. The extension of the prescribed term from
3 days to 10 days, so graciously granted by the so called Anti-
-Opium Bureau in consideration for those concerned, does not
improve matters. We cannot help feeling that this regulation in
requiring the opium to be boiled down within so short a period
is but an ingenious device on the part of the Provincial
Authorities as an attempt to legalize the imposition of further
and