About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


1

handle is hein.llcr/locafts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1851 - -R0CtAFla. 'I r : fL iKIfi' 0? T SA CQ'&. PIUN Issued by the ring of Siam as .hailand was then known), this proclamation was an early attempt to impose more realistic controls over opium. the absolute prohibition against trading in opium was modified, and opium trade was made a government monopoly. * enceforth, trade in opium was to be carried on only by local opium agents and farmers appointed by the government for this purpose. The monarch responsible for the proclamation was King Rama [\^ also known as Mongkut, the king described in Anna Leonowens' The E lish overness at the Siamese ourt, Margaret Landon's Anna and the King of Siam, and ?odgers and ammerstein's musical comedy the iin and I.