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idosure in. Sir,L. Carnegie's despatch No. 20 of Jamary 29th 1923.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Jammary 23rd, 1923.
sir,
The Hote which Your Excellency addressed to Dr. Barbosa
de Magalhaes on the 10th November, stating the conditions
in regard to which His Majesty's Goverment desired to obtain
the concurrence of the Government as a preliminary to the
negotiation of an agreement on the importation of opium inte
Macao from India, in substitution of the agreement of 1913, was
forwarded in due course to the Xinistry for the Colonies.
I have now received from my colleague in that Ministry
the particulars necessary to enable me to reply to Your
Excellency's Note and I have the honour to transmit them
to you in a recapitulated form which will, however, show
His Majesty's Government the care which has been taken
in the examination of their proposals.
Portugal does not in any way wish to weaken its under-
taking, assumed under the Convention of 1912, to put an and
gradually to the abuse of opium, It cannot, Howeber,
refrain from taking into consideration circumstances which
none of the countries interested have failed to take into
account in comection with their respective colonies.
The agreement of 1913 allocated to Nanao for ten years
five hundred chests of opium, two hundred and sixty being
for home consumption and two hundred and forty for exprt,
with power to increase the latter. By this it was
recognised that for the trade of Macae five hundred cheste
were/