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India office to General Secretary, Anti-Opium Asen. Peking.
April 20th, 1920.
I am directed by the S. of 3. for India to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter dated the 16th April 1920, with which you
enclosed a copy of your letter of the 16th March on the subject of
the export of opium to HongKong and Macao.
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2. A reply to the letter of 16th, Warch will be sent we soon
as certain information already called for from India has been
received. Meantime, as requested in your letter of the 16th April,
a statement is FFXIX enclosed giving particulars of the opium
revenue of India.
3. I am to explain that the net revenue under the head of
opium" includes the price at which "excise" opium às sold by the
actory to the various local Covernments, while the "excise"
tion of the total revenue from opium represents the profit on
ale of this excise opium to vendors, as well as the fees
sale of the
from the/right of £ retail vend. The policy of the
is to obtain the maximum of revenue from the minimum
unsimption; and to this end, the price at which opium is issued
tall sellers has been steadily increased, You will not fail preciate the vital fact that the amount manufactured for
e" purposes
each year
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which corresponds closely with the amount
has remained fairly constant, while the de" portion of the opium revenue has risen from 155 lakhs to Lakhs in seven years. The "excise" portion of the net revenue
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the first portion of the period, and of opium as a consequence of the war during
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