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which
is essential to the value
of the farm powers are
to issue search
giver
A variants and
seizes opium found
in their
possession of persons contrary
to the prohibitions.
Under the present arrangement =
ment the Government retains
the whole
of
the farm in
its
own hands except so much as
relates
sale
of
to the preparation and
dross opium which is
separately farmed out to a
who is called the
licensee who is
Dross-farmer. It is essential to
the value of
the dross
farmer's
monopoly that no persons
except those authorized by
himself shall prepare
or deal in
this
dross opium. But it
was
doubtful whether the prohibitions
of
the Ordinances as they stood applied to dross opium. The
object of this Ordinance is to
extend all the prohibitions
and the
powers for
enforcement so as dross opium
was
to apply to
as fully
as to
ordinary prepared opium.
Signed) Edward L. O'Malley
21 July, 1883