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We have the honour to acknowledge receipt

of your letter of today's date enclosing for our information

translation of a report of the Opium Prohibition Bureau at

Canton which was forwarded to H. B. M's. Consul-General by the

Governor-General of the Liang Kwong Provinces.

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In the first paragraph of the report it is

stated that the tax is collected on prepared opium and not on

raw opium. This is not true, and the various permits and receipt/

which we have obtained and which were handed to you show con-

-clusively that the tax is levied on whole balls of opium

bearing the I. M. Customs transit certificates which according

to the additional articles to the Chefoo Convention are supposed

to free the opium from any taxation until it reaches the place

of consumption.

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We cannot believe that the reason for the

regulation requiring purchasers to boil down the opium within

3 days from the date of purchase is to prevent the opium from

being stored. Prepared opium can be stored just as well as raw

opium and as a matter of fact improves by keeping. We must

strongly protest against this unnecessary interference with the

freedom of our trade. The extension of the prescribed term from

3 days to 10 days, so graciously granted by the so called Anti-

-Opium Bureau in consideration for those concerned, does not

improve matters. We cannot help feeling that this regulation in

requiring the opium to be boiled down within so short a period

is but an ingenious device on the part of the Provincial

Authorities as an attempt to legalize the imposition of further

and