Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Various Embassies and Consulates, China: General Correspondence. SECTION TWO FO 682/1972/7

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Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Various Embassies and Consulates, China: General Correspondence. SECTION TWO: DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND BRITISH AUTHORITIES 1839-1860. Chu-erh-hang-a to C. Elliot. Transmits Lin Tse-hsü's edict specifying manner in which opium is to be surrendered: (1) opium in factory area to be put outside buildings on 29 March; opium in Whampoa to be delivered on 30 March; (2) opium at Lintin to be delivered at Hu-men on 31 March and on 1 and 2 April; (3) British opium in Macao to be delivered at Sha-chiao; (4) opium clippers on high seas to be ordered to sail to Sha-chiao. 10 pages.
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  • United Kingdom
  • Nineteenth Century
  • The sale of opium in Macau