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was read a

first

time at

the

Opium

the last meeting of the Legistative Council, and I

pass

hope that it will the Legislature very shortly. Your Lordship

hav

already learned from Sir G. William Des Vaux's

despatch W. 130 of the 1st

of May, that this government

was in a

great

measure

induced by the complaints of the smuggling referred to, to reduce the rental of

the

4.

Farm so as to

remove the temptation of "

smuggling, and several of

the new conditions imposed

the

Opium Farmer

upon in his new

terms

agreement (the

of which Your

Lordship has

approved in

your despatch No 129 of the 17th of June), have for their object, as Mr Ackroyd mentions, the

prevention

of smuggling into China.