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Your Lordship asks me to consider and report

this

some

whether it would not be possible to repeat the experiment of placing traffic directly under Government, or by other modification of the ~ -existing system to diminish the evil resulting from it without seriously crippling

the Revenue.

matter

I have given this ~

my

earnest consideration

and

and have had several

consultations in regard to

it with His Honour the

Chief Justice.

We have come to

the conclusion, a conclusion.

in which the Executive ~

Conneil concurs, that it

would be impossible

to

diminish the evil of the ~ Opium traffic by abolition of the existing

an

system.

I have asked dir

ding.

Russell