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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Hongkong, 28th July, 1910.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 22nd instant (No.6854/08) transmitting a copy of a letter from H.B.M's Consul-General at Canton of the previous day's date wherein
he states that the Board of the Opium Prohibition Bureau refuse to admit that a levy (additional tax explains this more correctly)
on prepared opium in a treaty port constitutes an infraction of the
Chefoo Convention, and that the Board are willing, however, to
consider and consult Canton upon a suggestion that no time limit
within which opium must be boiled down be prescribed.
The Committee of this Chamber see no reason to accept
the tentative proposal so cleverly put forward. They ask that the
regulations issued in relation to the present illegal taxation of
opium be withdrawn"in toto" and they will be satisfied with no less
measurS6.
The Hon.Mr.A.M.Thomson,
Colonial Secretary.
I have etc,
(sd) A.R.Lowe.
Acting Secretary.