CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 95

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F

suggests that if Portugal mors incautiously we shell sacrifice

The revenue

Maces with no

"means & replacing it : but shang

Kong will maintain her revenue.

and continine to take the best

advantage o

the situation"

In a second private memorandum

1 Col d'Indrade says.

that his

des. w. be ready to modify

his minimain of 840 chuls

by bumping it never

to Ithong

in new of the fact that while

Store Kong

Consume

rure than

it's exports, the experts prom

Macao exceed the lovel

consu

jotion

but he asto

whether the limit imposed on the thing, farmer has ever

fum excited wke the this account for the much

(7.0/30333)

greater revenue durived by the Eer! 1 Athong.

93

kander Clause II of the present

ItKong Contract the farmer may

hot draw more.

than

900

chest

f

raw opium in each completed

year of the farm waters the

special permission of the Gorsemor

to exceed that amount is obtained. This special per- mission has hases been given.

From 1895 until the pr March 1900, when the present contract

Legan,

the farmer.

has been allowed to an anamal

maximum of 1800 chests. In he withdrew from bond

1907

725 chests, and (969) in 1908,

while the average withdrawals

air

the period 1895 to 1908

were 1231 cherti

When HMM. G. decided in 1908

to whit the

consumption

Copium, it was considered

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