CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 389

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

altogether refuse to meet

the professed desire of the Siamese Government to put

some

check upon a trade

which is stated to be injurious

to the people of siam, it would not be possible to

concede to them such absolute

power over

over the sale of intoxicans

as would be conferred

Memorandum B

45

by

danses I and 5 of the above proposals.

It

It will be seen

reference to

pages

on

385

2 and 3

of mother memorandum also inclosed, that in 1867

a

Convention was

agreed upon

between France and Siam,

under which no

foreign

spirits could be sold without

OL

license subject to a tax

not exceeding forty five

Tecals, but which the Siamese

Government had no power

to

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