CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 17

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" prepared opium, the Provincial "Treasurer, and the General

" Board for the collection of

" lekin, to consider the matter and report without

together

"delay,

and have received their

" report before I can come to

" any determination on

propovalo "any opinion

Sound weco

your

or pronounce

Co

to the

of the scheme.

"In addition to this,

and addres

reply

ving a despatch

to the Governor, asking

hem

to examine into the 6 matter,

m

"I had also to order the

"General Board for the

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Collection

of

the tane ow

prepared,

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" prepared opium to at once " consider the matter, in

" conjunction with the "Provincial Treasurer and General Board for the

" Collection of lekin, and "report on it without delay " so that I might decide the

affair.

the following reply

also received from the Governor.

" With

regard

the

wax

to the Petition;

"offering to undertake the " monopoly of collecting

ollecting the

"Lave on prepared opium " and the hoifong tax for

5 years

af a yourly sum of

$900,000