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"The Foreigners of all Nations in Canton, have received with profound respect the Edict of the Imperial Commissioner, and a meeting of their Body was convened immediately the Document was fully interpreted to them...They are now made fully aware of the Imperial Commands for the entire abolition of the traffic in Opium..." The trade of opium was going strong, in anticipation that it would be legalized shortly, however this document confirms the opposite, as His Excellency the Imperial Commissioner has proclaimed. The document directs that any opium left on trade ships that were to be sold in China to be sent to "countries contiguous to India namely Persia, Turkey and Arabia...[where they] consume it to a large extent and that in all those places it is a valuable article of Trade." With a manuscript note in a different hand at top in pencil making a note that this is an addition to a document for the organization, proposed by Mr. Fox. On verso is another ink note about the document's proposal by Mr. Fox.