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Section S.--Rewards and Punishments.
Art. 16. A local official who has furnished by the proper date all the returns called for under these Regulations may be recommended for favourable notice to the Board by the high authorities of his province.
Art. 17. A local official who has enforced within the fixed limit of time all the prohibitions pecified in these Regulations may be recommended for favourable notice to the Board by the provincial authorities.
Art. 18. If a local official succeeds within the space of one year, and without inflicting undue hardship on the people in his jurisdiction, in reducing the amount of land under opium cultiva- tion, the number of opium shops, and the number of smokers by more than three-tenths, the Viceroy or Governor may present a Memorial recommending that he should be granted some special mark of approbation by the Board.
Art. 19. A local official who fails to furnish the proper returns by the proper date or who makes false returns shall be reported to the Board for punishment.
Art. 20. A local official who fails to enforce within the fixed limit of time the various prohibi. tions specified in the Regulations shall be reported to the Board for punishment. A false return under this Article will involve still more severe punishment. The superior officials will also, if they were aware of the circumstances, be liable to the same punishment.
Art. 21. A local official who fails to effect within his jurisdiction in a year a decrease of at least one-eighth in the aromat of land under opium, the number of opium shops, and the number of smokers shall be reported to the Board for punishment.
Art. 22. The present Regulations shall be carried out in accordance with those laid down by the Government Council. Details shall be arranged by the provincial authorities in accordance with local conditions. -
Art. 23. The amount of fees collected under these Regulations must be reported periodically to the Board, and will go to meet the expenditure connected with the prohibition of opium. No other charges beyond the fees fixed by those Regulations may be levied, and should it afterwards appear advisable to increase the amount of these fees a joint Memorial on the subject will be submitted by the Board of Revenue and the Board of the Interior.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Sir,
No. 1.
[July 23.]
SECTION 1.
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Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received July 23.)
American Embassy, London, July 12, 1908. WITH reference to my note of the 8th May last relating to the subject of the opium trade in China, I have the honour to inform you, under instructions from my Government, that the United States Opium Commission is now at work on the question with a view to limiting the use and transportation of the drug in the United States, such use and transportation having already been restricted in the Philippine Islands.
The investigations to date show clearly the opium question to be of the highest importance to the United States, and the Commission are therefore also considering the question of opium derivatives, also internal consumption of crude opium, licit and illicit; internal manufacture and use of chandu morphia and other derivatives, licit and illicit; extent of poppy cultivation in America, possibilities of poppy cultivation, federal laws regarding importation and municipal laws governing use of opium and derivatives.
My Government therefore ventures to suggest that, for the ultimate success of the Joint Commission, it would be advantageous if each Commission could, before the joint meeting on the 1st January next at Shanghae, study the opium question as it affects its possessions in the same manner as the United States' Commission is now carrying on its investigations.
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