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may send their names in collectively through the headman
of the village.
Proclamations will be issued in advance by the local
authorities giving the necessary directions, and forms will
be supplied which smokers will have to fill in, giving
their names in full, age, address, occupation, and daily
allowance of opium: and a limit of time will be fixed for
them within which they must report themselves as having
given up smoking, due consideration being paid in this
regard to the element of distance.
As soon as all the smokers have reported themselves,
a register will be drawn up and a copy thereof be sent
to the higher authorities for purposes of record and
reference. At the same time, printed licenses under
the official seal will be prepared, and every smoker will
be obliged to have his license.
These licenses will be
of two classes, A and B. Persons over sixty years of
age will get licenses under class A, while those under
sixty will be enrolled under class B; provided always
that no person who has held a license under class B shall
be entitled to the issue of a license under class A on
subsequently attaining the age of sixty.
The license will contain the holder's name in full,
age
áge, address, daily allowance of opium, and date of
issue, and will constitute the permit to consume and
buy opium. Any person consuming opium without a 11-
cense, or purchasing the drug,shall on discovery or in-
formation duly laid be subject to such penalty as may be
called for. After the first inquisition inspection will
proceed on the basis of the register, and no fresh ap-
plications for licenses will be entertained, in order
that the number of smokers may be strictly limited.
Article III. To reduce the craving for opium within a
limited time in order to remedy chronic addiction thereto,
After the licenses have been issued, and putting out
of consideration persons over sixty whose constitutions
are already undermined and in whose case the question of
giving up the habit need not be pressed, - all persons
under sixty holding licenses under class B shall have a
limit set on the quantity of opium which they consume,
to be reduced each year by 20-30 per cent, and to be
totally given up within a few years. On becoming total
abstainers, they will have to produce a bond signed by a
relative or near neighbour, which will be presented to
the local authority, and if found in order, the name of
the party concerned will be erased from the register,
while
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