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sayspiam consiągned to the Colony ether than on homes. Keng

GOTATILARİ Admount, or on a through bill of lading to some

placs into which it might ingally be imported, mint ipso

fasto be illicit. As I understand the position, this is

not the onse at present, as the importation imahe Colony

of zeraian opium is permitted by a maolution of the

Legislative Council of the 4th of June 1914 (vide Gaaette

ketifiestion họ. 21c of the 5th of June 1914)

4. i consider therefore that it is desirable to

Jestion b (1) of the tpism urdinkuon 1914 by deleting

the words after the word "Colony” in this subsection. Tinh để tạo foot that brutals in arid TÍN CÁ ĐỘ C PE

onapod, exoept for indian opium destined for vaca8,

opium consigned on through bills of lading to the Jaç20020

authoritima in Japanand Formosa (vide the reply of your

Governusatte jaustion 1 of tùm longus of katione

sumatiomnai re on Traffie in Úp.

Bund

Thin menasiment of the

law would not, I thing, cauen und immuvanimnes to your

GOVOYEURES, it would mere-over materially straathon thị

position of tăm Colony vis-à-vis its nati-opium eritics.

i have had this aspect of the matter in mind in magnating

an amandment to the urdinanes rather than by a franci

zenckutium of the Legislative Council, royämning the

simsolution to which i have referred in paragraph 3 of thi •

deapatok. This proondare is also preferable to the

alternative method of proceeding, by a kesulution of the

ungislative Counsil, in that it avoids any sị seific referen

to any foreign country, and so is less likely to am SONY

ÞÏfsnes in any quarter.

D

i maelom cupian of letters from the indio uffice

and Foreign offies sœpressing their concurrence in this

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