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you appear to anticipate, Imust however defer
any expression of mny opinion upon
this onlyect
mutil I shall be in
possession of furcht information as to the practical working of the Regulations adopted!
trave I have se
now
A formal petition of all the...
Firms and
and shops of this settlement; who
Honor to
conjointly entreat Your
dissolve the monopoly ( of Opium),
that all our
fluish .
establishments
may
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Your people whether engaged
in a small or large trade, have from
their arrival in
this
all.
Colony, all
principally derived their profits from the (sale) of Opium. Last however this commodily
a
monopoly, and every
in it,
As
4.vas
200n að
ove
year
was made
who dealt
exposed to heavy fines .
very the Merchants of the in
different places heard of this, they
leath to come
were
hither, and hencë we
have found it difficult to dispose of
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