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secret sales by prepared opium shops and to facilitato investigation. That, although the term of three days is somewhat too harsh, illicit advantage would be taken of any excessive extension by unscrupulous merchants, and there would be secret sales of opium and losses of revenue, and that in consequence the beneficial objects of opium pro- hibition would be frustrated. In the interests of the trade of British merchants, however, the Bureau proposes to alter the former regulations and to impose a limit of one month from time of purchase on prepared opium shops for boiling, after which the levy must be

paid. Such action would make the period tem times as long as before. As regards the prepared opium shope, that a month should elapse be- tween the buying of raw opium and its preparation is an impossible contingency. As regards the foreign merchants, one month will have elapsed from the time of sale, and the fact that the packages will have been broken and the opium prepared before the prepared opium shop is made to pay the levy, will make it impossible for them again/

say that the levy is imposed on raw opium in defiance of the Treaty.

As regards the British Consul General, the double object will be attained of rendering assistance to opium prohibition, end of pro-

tecting the trade of his nationals.

I have the honour to submit that the proposals of the

Bureau are highly equitable, The limit of one month for boiling dam

can have no harmful effect on the foreign opium import trade. I would

therefore request mar you to instruct the British merchants in-

terested to submit to this regulation.

I shall be glad to receive a reply in due course.

(Seal of Governor General of the Liang

Translated:

(Sgd.) R.S.Pratt.

Kuang).