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adverted to above is that of the obligation that we have contracted under the

agreement of 1886 to do what

is

possible to prevent the smuggling of opium from Hongkong into China. The obligation is one which we

morally bound to fulfil,

are n

and China will have fair

cause

for complaint, if : fail in this

in this duty. The

we

substitution of the bonded warehouse system for the

for

the

-farm would necessarily involve the abolition of main check on such smuggling vir : the existing prohibition, which is stipulated for in the agreement in question, against the possession by

one-

raw

more than

-person in the Colony of

opium in quantities –

less than one chest. And it

would indefinitely multiply the existing opportunities and temptations to smuggle into China. At present, if.

we

except