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October
17th., 1911.
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Translation of a Note from the Mexican Ministry of Finance to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, dated October 3rd., 1911.
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
General Administration of Customs. No. 1210.
report:-
The Customs House has furnished the following
*The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has transmitted
to the Ministry of Finance the Note addressed to them by His
Britannic Majesty's Legation which states that as His Majesty's Government have been making great efforts to stop the importation
of opium into China, a tendency exists to substitute for that
product the use of still more harmful drugs, such as morphine,
and its compounds, and cocaine, for which reason the Colony of
Hongkong has decreed that the exportation of these drugs be pro-
-hibited, to all those countries which prohibit their importation;
that in spite of this a considerable traffic is carried on in
both drugs which are transhipped to Macao, from whence they are
exported in considerable quantities to Mexico: and, in order to
obtain proof of this the aforesaid Legation desires to be furnish-
-ed with a report as to whether the said drugs are imported into
the Republic, and whether they are allowed entry through the
ports of the country, and, if so, whether it would be possible to
take any steps to supervise this traffic with the object of placi -ing the Government of Hongkong in a position to ascertain what
transactions in the aforesaid articles are being carried on by firms in the Colony.
Alcaloids such as morphine and cocaine are included under Section 547 of the Tariff, which covers drugs and chemical products, and seeing that, in accordance with the law, importers are not obliged to declare the goods by name, it being sufficient that they should cite the Section and the correspond-
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