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Hongkong.

Conclosure!

Conclosure 2

My Lord,

C. O.

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Government House

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Hongkong, 10th. July, 1908.

I have the honour to transmit for

the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following

Ordinance entitled:-

An Ordinance to prohibit the Exportation of

Prepared Opium to China and to French Indo-

-China.

2.

The customary report by the

Attorney-General is annexed.

3.

The origin of this legislation is

to be found in paragraph 4 of the Memorandum handed to

Sir John Jordan by the Ministers of the Wai Wu Pu on the

29th. November, 1906, where the proposal to prohibit the

importation of Prepared Opium from Hongkong into China was

made for the first time: and the negotiations on the

subject between this Government and the Government of

China, which were initiated in accordance with the

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instructions contained in Lord Elgin's telegram of the

4th.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

&c.

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