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within the next few years of the import of foreign

opium pari passu with the decrease of native opium,

so that both may be absolutely prohibited by the ex-

piry of the time limit of ten years.

Besides Indian opium the drug is also imported

from Persia, Annam, and the Dutch Indies in no small

quantities. In the case of Treaty Powers negotia-

tions should similarly be entered into with their re-

presentatives in Peking to effect the prohibition of

such import; while with non-Treaty Powers, we can

exercise our own prerogative in strictly forbidding

the import.

All Tartar Generals, Military Lieutenant Gov-

ernors,

Governors General and Governors should also

direct their subordinate authorities and Commission-

ers of Customs to take preventive measures along the

trade routes and frontiers to stop smuggling.

As regards morphia and the instruments used for

its injection into the skin, the effects of which

are even more injurious than those of opium itself,

proper effect should be given to the stipulations

laid down in Article XI of the British Commercial

Treaty, and Article 16 of the American Commercial

Treaty, and instructions be issued to all Customs

Houses to disallow the import of any morphia and in-

struments into China which are not for medical use;

while a strict prohibition must be enforced against

any shops in China, whether native or foreign, manu-

facturing morphia or instruments for its injection.

Article XI. All Tartar Generals, Governors Gen-

eral and Governors of Provinces should direct the civil

and military authorities in their jurisdiction to is-

sue proclamations promulgating these rules for general

observance.

Treaty

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