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vident thet the Farmer would be unable to fulfil his con- Govern- tract. Accordingly at the beginning of 1907, the ment took overthe Ferm, together with the Ocium Factory where the drug was prepared for consumption
11. At this stage the Government norely replaced the Farmor, and carried on the salcs through sub-Farmers (Sa-Kong- si) as before. From a financial point of view the rua lts Muro cxcellent, since the pofits of the sub-Farmers, or mid-
Vido alg dlomen, wore limited to 1 tical per tamlung. 20.
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By this time the question of opium had become an international one, and a public docleretion of the opium col- icy of Siam was mado by His lato Majesty, in his annual speech from tho Throne, on September 21st: 1908, (Annexe 1). This was followed soon after, by the first Opium Commission huld at Shanghai in February 1909, at which Siem was recresented end a statement of the policy of the country was proscnted to the Commission by the Stamoso Bologation. (Annexo II).
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Since in any farming system, hovor modified,
it the Farmer will always try to soll as much as he is abb
in- was spoodily aparent that the system then in force wes contatible with a policy of ultimate supression,
rnoment rualized that the selo of opium should be fa fæ as cossible, to officials on fixed salaries, but ado- quate control over those officiels ws, unfortunately, el- most impossible, unless the otium oro packed for retail in such a mannor that it could not bo t mpered with the sales-
It was therefore decided to oroct now and modern fac- tory for the preparation and cæcking of opium tubos, follow-
Tenders ing the system adosted in the Netherlands Indios, zoru called for and the mohinery ordered in the year 1910.
Ten.
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In December 1911 and January 1912, the first
Siem International 0-ium Cănforence was held at the Hnguo. zes represented and was one of the countries signatory to the Convention concluded at the Conferenco. (sco Annoxo III for Statement of Delegation.}
15. In 1912, the ne? Ocium factory wes commenced and the machinery cructed, and in April 1913 (conncneoment of Buddhist yorr 2456) opium was rutailed in tubes in the city