CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 5

encouraging the export of manufactured opium from the Colony to the Chines Continent. It would not have been posible to interfere with the purchasers of the farm until the expiration of their Awelvemonths, but fortunately they induced by the circumstances to tender the resignation of the License, and this afforded

an

Moere

occasion for amending the

previous ordinance by omitting the words relating to consumption, and thus extending its operation to all opium whatever petailed within the Colony, below the quantity of one chest.

The effects were immediately felt on the resale of the farm, which took place on the 14 Instant. Instead of

Rent, the present one amounits to 17710

710 dollars per

mensen

the previous

dollars, yielding

avv a

annual Revenue

J.

of dollars 20,520 or

Xnx75.

-Enclosed I have the honor to:

-forward a certified copy of the amendes

Ordinance in " question, Nis

N: 3 of 1845, Entitled, : An Ordinance to repeal ordinance N=21

4

of 1844 * 7o.

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

Most Obedient

Humble Arvant.

Dasis