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fell off to such a serious

· extent that we had to revert.

to the system of farming.

The receipts

to no more

in 1884 amounted.

than $113,826 as

against $340,800, the amount

annually brought

f...

in

by

the present farm. The same result would follow if we

were

again

to revert to the

issue of licenses. As soon as

the revenue had fallen off

on the abolition of the farm; and the substitution for it

of

"")

of either a bonded warehouse

e

system,

of a

-system of ~

licenses, the smallness of the

revenue at stake would

naturally be

urged by those who desire the abolition of the

opium revenue as a reason

giving up

the

revenue

for

altogether. What would present serious difficulties when the revenue amounted to 3/2 or 4 laes, which is a moderate estimate of the value of the

farm, would become

comparative in