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sufficiently obvious) . Under the bonded warehouse system it would be quite impossible

for the Government to levy

duty

such a

on removals

· from the warehouse as _ would restrict local consumption within its present limits. If it.

it were to attempt to do

opium would be

so, raw

: smuggled in all over the . Colony, and once landed it could be openly prepared ~

and could not be shewn

not

not to have paid duty. The farmer is . able to protect~ himself against smuggling while charging a very high

price for his prepared opium,

of the existing

by

reason.

prohibition of the possession by any one except himself of raw opium in quantities less than one chest, and by of the extreme efficiency

reason

service. The

of his preventive

which he charges not

price

only renders it possible for

him