CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 16

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" regulations for your scruting

" with the

request that

& you

" will be go o d.

good enough to grant "Petitioners the permission

for which they pray, so that " they

Commence

this undertaking:

" which will without doubt

public benefit ?

" be

On receipt of

this Petition

the Viceroy

follows.

av

"With

at or ce

ce replied

reference to the various applications from Hong You shan

"and others

requesting

"permission to undertake on

Trial the

management of the

Fax on prepared opium I referred the matter (to

the

" the issuers of the present

"notification) for their a

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" consideration and reportées

مدا

regards the

on record. As "Petition in which it is

" proposed that the save on " prepared opium should " come under the head of " the hoi fong, by which the

" revenue would be increased

" and in which, for the

" working of these two taxes " to gether, a yearly

10.00 is offered, you

$ gov; v

eum

wait till I have given

of

muet

"instructions to the Heads of the General Board for

the

"Collection of the tax on

prepared