arriving
here and cetablish an
ort and Import office for
Export regulating
and control
controlling
ront of opium-
the
a control
which has been accomplished
with
very satisfactory results.
As the collection.
for the
of all opium duty was first time entrusted to the Foreign
Custon
opium
no and as a
great dears of -shipped by Junks
was s
from Hongkong
that
it was
was arranged
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free
ce sale of opium within the
Colony.
This
ぜ
great
innovation, as the sale of opium
had been carried on f
retail by
breely by
more than forty shops,
which sold in
one ball - half.
any quantities.
a balt
OV CICL
one tall weight. But to properly
control the
Durqveni veut it was
found necessary to prohibit the
of
small quantities persons except
+ the Opium
possession
Station should be establish
by
all
ed in Chinese rowloon for ___
issuing duty certificates to funk- borné opium.
The Songkong-
Government with the object of
carrying
out the views.
of
Ste.r
l'ajesty's Government, to co-operate with China in collecting
her
whiums tax, and to increase its own revenue, prohibited the
free
1.
Farmer - who required it for his
trade.
These arrangements
• given legal effect to by Ordinance At 2.2 of 1887. Up till
then
no check was placed trade. Whether 10,000 chests or
5,000 were
Hongkong
smuggled from
the.
was the merest compcture. Since the early days
of
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