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consumption or for export, and that the import should
be strictly limited to the amount so ascertained;
(2) an offer on behalf of the Government of India to
co-operate so far as possible in any measures taken for
this purpose, either by limiting the sales of chests
of opium at Calcutta for Kwongchowwan to a fixed annual
number and confining the delivery of such opium to an
agent appointed by the French Government, as proposed
in the case of the Macao agreement, or in any other
practicable manner.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
T. W. Holderness.