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and be liable to a fine of twice their value.
Articles VI and VII discuss the preparation of
remedies for the cure of the opium craving, their
sale at a fixed price, or free distribution, the
establishment of anti-opium societies, and the for-
mation of en enlightened public opinion on the sub-
jecb.
Article VIII charges the local authorities with
the duty of leading the movement, giving effect to
all provisions regarding reports, inspections and
licences, inculcates the necessity of personal atten-
tion to these matters, and severely forbids any exac-
tions on the part of underlings.
Article IX forbide the smoking of opium by of-
ficials of high rank: a number of such persons are
enumerated who must solicit the permission of the
Throne to be allowed to give up the habit within a
fixed time or in default, to lose their post, if an
official, or to have their rank pass on to the next
in succession, if a hereditary nobie.
For all other officials the time limit is six
months.
Teachers, scholars, officers and men of the
Army
Army and Navy, 1f opium smokers, are to be dismissed
within three months.
Article X deals with the negotiations which are
to be entered into with Great Britain and the Govern-
ments of other opium importing countries with the
view of insuring that the import of foreign opium
shall decrease pari passu with the decrease of the
native drug and shall cease entirely at the end of
the specified ten years.
Measures are also to be taken for enforcing the
eleventh Article of the British Commercial Treaty
and preventing the importation of morphia or instru-
ments for its injection except for medical use.
The lith Article provides for the issue of pro-
clamations promulgating the Regulations for generai
observence.
So far as the Rules are concerned, they seem to
leave nothing to be desired in regard to their com-
pleteness of scope and thoroughness of aim and the
main point which arises for consideration is whether
they are capable of being enforced in practice. On
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