Lax Office Busily lecting Fee ug, Dec. 1 ix stated that the opium tax office is now very busy and that something like $10, 00u to $15,000 is being drawn every day. Tt requires arnest this sum to bring the revenue up to the mount that, wins expected to ber: "yearly, Another office now opened and an interesting proclamation has been issued, stating that ye been received from the Milit and Civil Governors of the Pro:
mee to the effect Hat the Police ud the Masist should—join establish Opium Prohibition Tnve: Office." As a matter of office will sell licences to a for the transport the bounds of the Tchang jurisdic-tien for 12 cents an ounce. Reu-for's correspondent saw a receipt for this tax, which stated that the bearer had so oz. of Szechuan "goods," for which he had paid the tax of $9.60, and he liberty to have theSe goods' transported to any place "within the borders of the district governed by Ichang without. official interference.
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