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habit will be abandoned by the Chinese
people in the near future.
18. It has been suggested that
since presumably the smugglers are
already exerting their utmeat offerts
to evade the preventive measures new in
forse in the Colony, the mere maintenane
of the present degree of vigilance
would contime to restrain maigɛLång
within đưẹ limits. I havejut this
suggestion to the leverner who, however,
has replied that at present the profits
of smuggling are limited by the
existence of mupplies of legitimate
opium. if legitimate supplies vêre
stopped the temptation to smig: le would
be inerecued, as much larger profits
could be made, especially sa wealthy
people who now use Government opium
would be driven to use contraband.
Kven now, most of the large seizures
of illicit opium are due to informe tion
given by persone who have not bees paid
well enough to keep snorat, With
increased profits higher bribes would
be possible, and the Government could
nat compete without greatly increasing
their scale of rewards, whereas if
the Governor states that the deprived of the ori a revenue/thay
could not afford to maintain the present
scale.
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