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H. B. M. Consulate General,
10th August,
Canton,
1910.
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Your Excellency,
Having reference to the levy on prepared opium I have
the honour to transmit to Your Excellency copy of a communica- tion I have received from the Hongkong Government:-
"The following seizures of Foreign Opium, are reported, for the non payment of the tax.
*1, On 2nd August, 20 balls of Patna opium were seized outside the I.M. Custom atation at Samshui after payment of duty and likin.
*2, Two whole cheats, 1 Patna and 1 Benares, destined for Tsangsing and Loongmoon respectively were seized on the 2nd August in Suntong in Tsang Sheng district while in transit. Duty and likin on this opium was paid to the I.M.Oustoms in Hongkong and the opium was inspected by the Customs in Taichan and found in order. The opium was carried by the Hongkong licensed junk Shun Hing (License No.769) which left here on the 30th of July. The cheats bore the following marke,
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No.9343
No. 624
1 chest Patna.
1 chest Benares.
"The owner of the opium was also arrested and sent in fetters under an armed escort to Canton and was imprisoned there for two days. He was afterwards released on his signing a bond undertaking to pay a fine of Tls.1850. The opium is still held by the Kwong Yuen General Office in Suntong".
Time and again has Your Excellency assured me, and only so lately as the 5th instant was the assurance repeated in person, that opium under Transit Pass would be respected. That value can I place such assurances if unprincipled merchants in pursuit of gain nullify them? As the Kuang Yuan firm have seen fit to
His Excellency Yuan,
Acting Governor General of the Liang Kuang.
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