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present intolerable methode of procedure.
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I been assured by Your Excellency that opium under transit pass shall not be interfered with until it arrives at its destination. Yet I have in my possession a third receipt for opium purchased in Canton by a prepared opium dealer at Kumchuk (Kan-chu). has evidently been impressed on this individual that it is expedient to pay at once. The wholesale seller accordingly charges him with the prime cost plus the new leby at time of purchase in Canton, and impresses on the receipt a wooden stamp
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is what technically known as nei ti (interior). Foreign opium, having paid duty and likin, is entitled to proceed thither without molestation under transit pass; so says the Chefoo Con- vention. Thanai There is no obligation to pay the levy until the opium is boiled down; so says Your Excellency. Treaty pro- visions and assurances from the highest provincial authority notwithstanding here is a care of transit pass opium, destined for the interior paying the levy before it ever leaves the port of entry. Could evasion of international agreement or official undertaking be more flagrant?
My pen has become blunt warning Your Excellency of the consequences of such unwarranted interference with British trade, and requesting that regard be had to the fact that Hig Majesty's Government had expressed a desire that the regulations be suspended, pending a satisfactory settlement of the whole question by the two Governments. That it should be my duty to go on and addressing Your Excellency in a similar strain, would give colour to the supposition that the friendly relations ex- isting between Great Britain & China are in this part of the Empire hax of pet purpose ignored.
I have etc,
(sd) J.W.Jamieson.
Consul General.