CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 137

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that "the clause in the cheepor

"Convention in reference to opium. was not sufficiently explicit to

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serve

av atr

efficient regulation

" for the traffic ii

traffic in opium and

"

"recognizing

the desirability

of

"placing restrictions on the consumption

reed to the present

of opium have agree "additional ashold

It was are

arranged

and skin

that all opium duty entering China should be collected by the Foreign Custores, and that a uniform rate of 30 Jaels per picul duty and 80 Faels lekin should be collected at the same. It was also arra

arranged that

Live

Custours Hulk. would be provided at all the Treaty Ports into which opium would be placed in bond on its arrival, and that the combined tax should. payable

on removal.

only

be

This

This increased

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duty

was considered would lead to

increased smuggling from the free port of Hongkong

sowe am

arrangements s

with the Colony for

warenorise on

unless

were made

the control

of opium and Sir Robert Hart proposed Custon is Hulko in our Aarbour, and a Chinese bonded

shore, to which all opium show a be taken. and kept, and only released on -paying duty to China.

In pursuance of the

Cheefoo Convention and the _ additional article a Commission

Avas

appointed in 1886 " to "Inquire into the question of "the prevention of opium

" smuggling into China " and

the result was that

(KAN ANNAnje

ment was come to that Hongkong would keep tally of al's skium

arriving