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Lord Crowe in despatch No.180 of the 18th ultimo,
expresses the fear that the effect of the reduction of the
royalty "will be to decrease the price at which morphine can be
www sold, and possibly to lead to an increase sale of the drug.”
But, in the first place, as stated in Mr. Humphreys letter 570
above quoted, the royalty of $30.00 per tael has not as a
general rule been collected by the Opium Farmer, for Chemists
and Druggists in the Colony have entered into private agree-
ments with him to pay less: and in the next place, as pointed
out by the Chamber of Commerce, the Opium Farmer's monopoly
was never intended to cover the sale of the drug ac medicine.
and the royalty was imposed in order to prevent the abuse of
morphine or compounds of opium as substitutes for prepared and
frosa opium, not in order to restrict legitimate medical use
of these drugs.
This Government, however, while reducing the royalty
payable to the Opium Warmer on morphine, has at the same time
Mopted very stringent measures to restrict the use of the
rug to legitimate purposes. For example at the date when
Ordinance No.10 of 1904 was passed the Registrar General
reported that there were some 83 firms in the Colony dealing
in opium pills and opium wine, and that of these 83 there were
which dealt in these articles exclusively. But in November
908 there remained as licencees only 28 firme which had been
in business in the Colony prior to the passing of Ordinance No.
10 of 1904, while only five firms all of them European (A.S.
Jatson & Co. Emil Niedhardt, W. Shewan & Co. A Rumjahn & Co.
Jatkins Ltd.) had been added to the list since the passing of
the Ordinance: and no firm remained which dealt exclusively
in opium pills and opium wine.
On the 18th December 1907, Mr. Tratuan, as representa-
ive of this Government and Mr. A.H.Todd, as representative
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