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On this occasion, when passing through Samshui, the Kuangtung.

Customs after holding an enquiry imposed a fine; the owners of the

opium however did not report to the Samshui Branch office of the

Opium Prohibition Investigation Department that the opium had been

brought there, but engaged another boat and took the opium into the

country. The branch office of Samshui followed them, and, on

enquiry, learned that the owners had no trading license. The men in

charge of the opium at once decamped, and there was nothing to do

but seize the twenty balls of opium and convey them to Canton,

furnishing a report on the matter to the Opium Prohibition Bureau

and asking for instructions. We therefore issued orders to the

following effect. Until the persona in charge of the opium have

been arrested and severely punished for their infraction of the

regulations in not having obtained a license to buy and import, the

opium in question is to be kept in store and not confiscated.

These are the true facts of the seizure of twenty balls of foreign

opium at Samshui.

Tr The merchant Llang again reports that on August

3rd (VI.28) at Hein T'ang seventy nine balls for foreign opium

were seized. The persons in charge thereof, on examination, stated

that they had not trading license; the opium had been bought at the Hung Fa shop in Hongkong and conveyed to the Chien Ch'ang shop

in Hsin T'ang.

offit The opium and the men in charge

were then sent

to Canton with a view to being examined by a Magistrate. As, how-

ever, the men repeatedly begged and expressed their entire

willingnes8 to be fined $2,000, instead of being sent to the

magistracy to be dealt with, enquibles were instituted at the time,

but it was found that there did not exist at Hein t'ang any shop

of the style of Chien ch'ang; while from first to last the men

in charge of the opium were unable to produce a trading licence.

As, however, this occurred so shortly after the introduction of

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