5
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Date.
1893
10 March
Home Office Straits No. 4160
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REG'd !! MAR 93]
(Subject.)
49. Sir Mark Stewart, - Sale of Opium (British India, &c.), - To call attention to the system of Government licences for farming out the retail sale of Opium in British India, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, British Borneo, and Shanghai; and to move. That, in the opinion of this House, the system at present in force in British India, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong, whereby the retail sale of Opium is farmed out to licencees, who have a pecuniary interest in its increased sale, necessarily tends to spread the vicious habit of indulgence in this drug; that the sale of Opium in India and the Crown Colonies ought to be restricted in accordance with the principles recognised in the legislation of the United Kingdom; and that discretionary powers for such sale should be entrusted only to responsible and carefully selected persons upon whose discretion reliance as to sale may be placed. [An early day]
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L.PL
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5
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Date.
1893
10 thar
Home Mone Straits No. 4160
DOMESTIC.
0.0.
7
be
4160
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Reck
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(Subject.)
49. Sir Mark Stewart,-Sale of Opium (British India, &c.),-To call attention to the system of Government licences for farming out the retail sale of Opium in British India, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, British Borneo, and Shanghai; and to move. That, in the opinion of this House, the system at present in force in British India, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong, whereby the retail sale of pium is farmed out to licencees, who have a pecuniary interest in its increased sale, necessarily tends to spread the vicious habit of indulgence in this drug; that the sale of Opium in India and the Crown Colonies ought to be restricted in accordance with the principles recognised in the legislation of the United Kingdom; and that discretionary powers for such sale should be entrusted only to responsible and carefully selected persons upon whose discretion reliance as to sale may be placed. [An early day]
previous Paper,
Hofe
3500
Put Ory
617-377—206 12-03
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Acunas
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(Minutes.)
Noted
The 18ths
22811'3
M. Fairfield
You
have the meino:
M. Russell, or a
copy.
you
wrote
it
usefal
to attach it to
would be
these papers
L.PL
11. March
It has mythief. Ihan no copy. Ituffine sie
M. Be has best bir
Futen.
The note is now
akastad .
dance for the present
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