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and if

if curtam securities were given. Rich Licences

cos ever crore

issued, nor were the required

Recurities ever.

5. Perhaps

or geven.

one reason

why

that the

perovce ingenuity of Chinese

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of which

this

here

no more. Quistead what the Chinese Opinen dealers

were allowed to do was

to take out a permit to export

Opium by the pinks A.B.; CR ;

b F G H y c

7. to heap

yo

the opine into

they

reot

cvere

xva

Operson

Opuinen dealers,

aided by

a

it

acroES

mistakenly

over-

complaisant

disposition in the Office of Suports & Exports, had discovered

a

plan by which, whilet

no doubt trouble was saved

to all concerned, the provisions of the Opium Ordinan

were reduced to a

The

been that a

vice 18

1887

dead letter.

of the Government had person about to export Opium should obtain a permit to put it on board the vessel A.B., which vessel.

should then and there

Rea,

aud

go to the opinn be seen here

the

az

all

lä ke

lighter, boundary, pay

- duty, open the clusts, put up the Opium in small parcels

e might suit their conversiones, bring it back here, all lovve and unfastened, and destribute it to the punks

named in the

-permit, which went to sea

they ploused

not as

6.

a

inore

complete nullification

of the whole lendency and spirit

the Ordinance. cat

of the

-hardly

be imagined, and, whilst fully recognising the industry and intellige.

with which

the Import and Export office

tras

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