CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 477

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14th. November, 1910.

Within a few days of the date on

which I left Hongkong to proceed on leave to England the

Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kuang Provinces endeavoured to

enforce certain Regulations in regard to Indian Opium

imported by Hongkong Merchants into Canton and other ports

under his jurisdiction which had for their object the in-

-position of a tax amounting to $288 per chest ($7.20 a

ball

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40 balls per chest) together with the establishment

of a Monopoly in the hands of a selected Chinese Firm, and

the enactment of various restrictions on purchasers for

the alleged disregard of which the Opium was seized and

detained, and fines and imprisonment inflicted on the

dealors. This action which is a repetition in a slightly

different and aggravated form of similar attempts, which

in the ears 1902, 1903, 1904, 1907, and 1908 had been

frustrated THE RIGITT HONOURABLE

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