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one

year

3205,000 a

Mr

and S. Pan King Sing's

year for

three

Gears

As the advertirement had invited

tenders for one, two or

three

years-

the latter, on the recommendation of the Excentive Council, was accerted

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The farem

was cold cubject

to the irovisions of the Idinance $2

1 1858 and an amending,

which

was read

amending Ordinance

first time in the

Legislative Conncil on the 21th December 1878 by which the Governor take

hower to arpoint excise officers to Seck more effectually the preparation and cale of prepared Opium within

ord. 1 of 1879

the Colony, and to requlate the

quantity manufactured and the

transfer

F

stocks at or

o

near the

time when the exclusive privilege

Expires

6. The

face

thank the Revenne

from the Opium Farm in Hongkong chould be thus cuddenly increased

by Zitty five per cent is universally admitted throughout the Colony to be owing in a great measure to the fact that the Officer who practically conducted the sale for Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy had not a very

profound knowledge of the business habits of the Chinese, nor did be