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That the local authorities shall have these shops regiɛ- tered.
3.
That the authorities shall then grant them licences for carrying on their buginsɛɛ, 1.6. of selling raw and pre- pared opium.
4.
That after agcertainment and registration of the number of opium shope in the Province of the Two K#ongs, no now opium ehope doing business in the buying and selling of raw and prepared opium may be established.
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5.
All opium shops are to be licenced and the licence le to be renewable every year and any shop either buying or Bolling raw opium without a licence is liable to be seized and shut up.
6.
Individuals who wish to purchage raw Opium must procure licences and produce them to the Opium shop to enable them to purchase the ras opium from that shop.
It is incumbent on that shop to see that the purchaser har a licence enabling him to purchase the specified amount and no other quantity than that epocified in the licence. The purchaser has to hand over to the opium shop one copy of the licence on purchasing and retains the other himself. Purchasers without a licence are subject to arrest and punishment.
We contend that the Government of China having by Articlse 5 and 10 of the British Treaty of Nanking 1842 expresɛly agreed to abolish the practice named in Article 5 of the Trasty, and having agraed to :-
"Permit British Merchants to carry on their
"mercantile transactions with whatever perɛo ne
"they please*
it is a groɛɛ abuse of this Treaty if the Provincial Authorities
of the Two Kwonga are allowed to carry into effect the enactment
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