[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Official Journal" of Indo-China of March 26, 1914.
(Translation.)
ARTICLE 3. The Monopoly authorities will instal a depôt at Fort Bayard for crude opium and for prepared opium (chandoo).
Article 4. Crude opium will be sold wholesale by the Monopoly authorities in original cases.
Article 5. Only sellers accepted by the Director of Customs and Monoplies for Indo-China will be allowed to take part in the said wholesale trade in crude opium.
Those concerned will be provided by the Monopoly authorities with a free licence available from the 1st January to the 31st December in each year.
They will have to pay down, in advance, security to the extent of 10,000 dollars. Article 6. On the 1st of each month, by means of bills posted in the general warehouse at Fort Bayard, the Monopoly authorities will fix the number of cases of crude opium that it intends to put up for sale during the said month, as well as the minimum sale price per case.
Licence-holders will make known, by the 5th of the month at the latest, the number of cases of which they intend to become purchasers at the price fixed by the Monopoly authorities,
If the number of cases asked for is smaller than, or equal to the number of cases put up for sale, each licence-holder will receive the quantity which he has declared he wishes to buy, on immediate payment of the price fixed by the Monopoly authorities.
If the number of cases asked for is more than the number of cases put up for sale on the 10th of the month, there will be an auction sale arranged by the Monopoly authorities, in which auction sale only licence-holders will be allowed to take part. The sale will take place for ready money, in lots of three cases at most, and at an initial bid fixed by the Monopoly.
By exception the Director of Customs and Monopolies will fix the dates for the sale in the month of March 1914.
Article 7. The retail trade in crude opium imported and put up for sale by the Monopoly authorities, its curing, and its transformation into chandoo, and not under any special regulation other than that of police, throughout the territory of Kwang.
chau-wan.
Article 8. The Monopoly authorities will place at the disposition of consumers at the general warehouse in Fort Bayard, and at all places in the territory where it can instal depôts, prepared opium (chandoo) in boxes of 100, 40, 20, 10, and 5 grammes, of the type manufactured in Saigon, at the respective price of 14 dollars, 5 dol. 60 c., 2 dol. 80 c., 1 dol. 40 c., and 70 cents the box.
Officials outside those employed in the Customs and Monopolies Department, who lend their help in the sale of prepared opium, have a right to the reduction fixed by article 1 of the Ordinance of the 23rd April, 1912.
Article 9. All introduction or attempted introduction by smuggling either of crude opium or of prepared opium into the territory of Kwang-chau-wan will be punished independently of the confiscation of the opium, of the articles made use of to conceal the fraud, and of the means of transport with a fine of 5 fr. for each mace (1/10 tael grammes) of the opium seized; the minimum fine, in any case, being 500 fr.
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Delinquents, in addition, will be condemned to imprisonment for six days at least, up to two months at most. If the delinquents are old offenders, or if they are licence- holders, the maximum punishment will always be inflicted. Further, the licence will be cancelled.
OPIUM.
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RECO REG 28 JUL 14
[June 17.]
SECTION 1.
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan,
Foreign Office, June 17, 1914. I HAVE received your despatch No. 193 of the 14th ultimo, forwarding copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Foochow, regarding the closing of the province of Fuhien under the Opium Agreement, and I approve the action taken by Mr. Wilkinson as therein reported,
I am, &c.
[2183 p-1]
E, GREY.
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