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The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 24 — Chapter XI · TRADE UNDER THE TREATY OF NANKING.

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Import duty had been regularly levied on opium for a hundred years, the prohibition of importation having been decreed after 1796 (Eitel).

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