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been boiled down, they will pay the tax due. branch office has also conformed with this practice. the deputy in charge of that office in requiring so Chi, the original guarantor at the Ho-k'ou sub-office, when the opium had arrived at Chao-ch'ing, had been sold and hed for some considerable time been boiled down, to press the prepared opium shops concerned to pay the prepared opium leby, was perfectly in order. But I must characterise as fradulent and deceitful the action of the Teo Chi firm who endeavoured to prevaricate and evade their responsibilities and have not yet paid the amount due from them, and having no answer to make to the *** reprimand from the branch office, pre- tended that they were threatened in this letter, and made an absolutely false statement of the facts to H.B.M. Consul General, their real intention being by these means on behalf of the prepared opium shope to defraud the Government.
As regards the Teo Chi firm, they in the first instance signed a bond, and then, sunsequently, denied their liabilities and presented a petition which was full of untruths, while up to the present time they have failed to pay the tax. The Samshui firme, Pao I and Kuang T'ai Lung, committed an offence against the re- gulations by not reporting the native opium which entered their godowns, and moreover illicitly sold without making a report 118 balls of Patna opium, the entry of which into their godowne haxs had been reported. This was detected by informants and the native opium was seized and brought back to Canton. AF, however, the gentry and merchants of Samshui came to Canton to intercede on their
behalf, I have not imposed a fine in the case of the Fatna opium which was sold without being reported, and have contented myself with finding the offenders in respect of the native opium which was not reported, and have in this way brought this case to an end. The opium has been returned, end my conduct have really been extraor- dinarily lenient. Moreover, this is a matter which concerns the
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