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while the license will have to be surrendered for cancella-
tion. Returns of all such proceedings will then be made
But if in spite of
quarterly to the higher authorities.
the liberal period of years allowed under this system there
should be individuals who fail to become total abstainers
within the allotted time, they must be regarded as wilful
victims to self-abuse, and nothing remains but to expose
In the future, them to punishment for not abstaining.
therefore, if any holder of a class B license exceeds the
time limit without giving up the habit and surrendering
his license for cancellation, he shall, if an official, re-
sign his office; if a graduate or licentiate, he shall be
deprived of his rank and diploma; and if he be of the or-
dinary people, his name will be recorded by the local au-
thority as an opium sot. A special list of such names will be
kept, and a return thereof be made to the higher authorities.
Besides this, such names, with the person's age, will be af-
fixed in a public place for general observation, and also
be exhibited in the town or village where such person lives,
that all may know his condition. Such persons will, further
not be allowed to take part in any annual or periodical meetings
which may be convened for any purpose by the local notables,
or in any respectable concern of life, so that it may be clearly
shown that they are outcasts of society.
Article IV. To prohibit opium-houses, in order
to purify the abodes of pollution.
Before the time limit is reached upon which the
prohibition becomes absolute, it would naturally be
hard to suddenly prohibit the existence of shops for
the sale of opium. But there is a class of opium
dens, which offer a continual temptation to youths and
the unemployed to frequent. These places are in ev-
ery respect noxious, and should be prohibited by the
local authorities, one after the other, a term of six
months being fixed for the complete cessation of this
calling and the substitution of another trade. If
the time limit is exceeded they should be compulsorily
closed.
Eating-houses and restaurants must also not be
nor
allowed to furnish opium for the use of guests,
must guests be permitted to bring smoking appliances
with them, under penalty of a heavy fine. Shops for
the sale of pipe-stems or bowls, opium lamps or other
smoking appliances must also be given one year's time
by the local authorities within which to close busi-
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