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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
SEPARATE REVENUE.
Opium
R. & S. 1887 1921.
India Office, London,
21st April 1921.
Revenue,
No. 45.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor General of India.
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FROM
MY LORD,
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,
Το
THE SECY. OF STATE FOR INDIA.
No. 21.
Dated Delhi, the 4th March 1921.
Received
I have considered in Council the Letter from Lord Chelmsford's
Government in the Finance Department,
Proposal to apply to India regulations governing the export of opium and kindred drugs similar to those contemplated for the United Kingdom.
No. 21, dated the 4th March 1921, on
the subject of the advisability of applying
to India regulations, governing the export of opium and other drugs to
foreign countries, similar to those which His Majesty's Government have
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suggested as suitable for the regulation of such exports from the United
Kingdom.
2. I concur in the conclusions at which your predecessor's Government
have arrived relative to this matter; and I have informed the Foreign Office,
the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office to this effect. I attach, for the
information of Your Excellency's Government, a copy of a letter, No. It. and S.
8057/20, dated the 12th October 1920, addressed to the Board of Trade.
A copy of this letter was sent to the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office
on the same date.
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Certificate system.
Observations of the Government of India on the proposal put forward by the Foreign Office regard- ing the regulation of the export of opium under
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I have the honour to be,
. My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servaut,
(Signed) EDWIN S. MONTAGU,
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