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in

curvy

Opium legislation that

the Ordinance

might increase its

is now

from Opium. Hence

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was acquired

that by abolishing the free sale of

loose Opium and controlling the

object although

clauses

22 of 1887 had double

The ordinance itself

not show it being complained

that smuggling

Opium

Smuggling, deport and that

the

Blockade Revenue

that

the vessels

smuggling by Chinese

Consider

Fall ... bucks pushing outside

The

Smuggling

and the Establishments

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the

Customs houses

in Chinese

territory just outside the limits

of the Colony

facilities for smuggling into

(wine which something as a free

port afforded. Hence

where ...

called formal permission.

the

7-1876

terms

of the Chefoo Convention and the additional articles of 1885 with the view of arranging a scheme for protecting its the smuggling ... believed that

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...

movement of it inspecting the

double object.

The ordinance

giving effective

appears to tie

Opium

was stored

covered the

attained.

In the first which

and to third

designed for the

protection of the Opium Framer

almost

But

sequently of the revenues.

any laxity in the

laxity in the administration

of that ordinance or any

their

interpretation put upon the terms

the

Law

which

smuggling into ...

lives China

...

easy

a good ground of

In altering the trap

complaint. For

of the ordinance

approved by the Chinese representation

public passed yet

which

before it

adding this

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The Colony might

the amending power

...

in the hands

...