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REGP @ OCT-10.
27th August, 1910.
( H. T. 23rd. 7. 11. )
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch in which you informed me that ou had learned from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong of two cases in which foreign raw opium, after payment of duty and likin, had been illegally seized by the Kuang yüan office and the owners thereof fined, one being outside the Customs station at Samshui, and the other in the Hsin t'ang district. You accordingly requested me to secure the ir release of the opium and the remission of the fine.
Not being at that time in receipt of a report on the cir- cumstances of these seizures, I at once instructed the Opium Pro- hibition Bureau to cause enquiries to be made and furnish me with a report, of which I now have the honour to enclose a copy.
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I note that the seizures of opium by the Kuang yuan office at Samshui and Hsin t'ang were due to the fact that the individuals, who had purchased the drug feried and were conveying it inland, hed failed to obtain trading licenses. 3 whichfie an infraction of the regulations laid down by the Board; the seizures were in no way connected with the Prepared Opium License Tax.
At the present time, when the prohibition of opium is being energetically enforced, the Board's regulations must be complied with, and rigorous investigations be made so that nothing may postpone the time when prohibition shall be complete.
You are an official of great experience and cannot fail to agree with me in this.
I avail ato.,
..Jamieson Esq.,
H.M.Consul General,
CANTON.
(Seal of Governor General).
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