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business, under penalty of a heavy fine.
In any
place where an excise is levied per lamp in opium
dens, such levy must be discontinued within one
month.
Article V.
To closely inspect orium-shops in
order to facilitate preventive measures.
Although it is not possible to forbid at once
the existence of opium shops, steps must still be
taken to compel their gradual disappearance, and un-
der no circumstances can any new shops be allowed
to open. All shops in any city, town, or village
which sell the raw drug or prepared opium must be
severally inspected by the local authorities,
will draw up a list of them in the form of a regis-.
ter, and issue to each a license which will consti-
tute their permit to carry on this trade. Once the
inspection has been made, no additions to the num-
ber of shops will be allowed.
who
Whenever persons come to such shops to buy
oplum, raw or prepared, the shopkeeper must examine
the customer's license before he serves him, and
without so doing must not sell any of the drug.
At the end of the year these shops must make a
bona-fide statement in writing to the local authority
of the amount of opium, raw and prepared, which they
The local authority will register these
returns, and reckon up the total amount sold in his,
District by all the shops together, so as to show the
amount of decrease in each year and for the purposes
have sold.
of comparison:
provided always that within the
period of ten years the sale shall be entirely stopped.
If the time limit be infringed the shops will be com-
pulsorily closed and the stock in hand be confiscated,
besides the imposition of a fine of at least double
its value,
Shops which from time to time drop out of the.
business must surrender their licenses for cancella-
tion. The license must not be kept, under penalty of
a heavy fine.
Article VI. To manufacture remedies for the
cure of the opium habit under official control.
There are many good remedies for curing the opium
without
habit
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