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Sec. 2. That if any person shall fraudulently or know- ingly import or bring into the United States, or assist in so doing, suy opium or any preparation or derivative thereof contrary to law, or shall receive, conceal, buy, sell, or in any manner facilitate the transportation, concealment, or sale of such opium or preparation or derivative thereof after importation, knowing the game to have been imported contrary to law, such opium or preparation or derivative thereof shall be forfeited and shall be destroyed, and the offender shall be fined in dry sum not exceeding five thous- and dollars nor less than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for any time not exceeding two years, or both. Whenever, on trial for a violation of this section, the defendant is show to have, or to have had, possession of such opius or prepare tel
tion or derivative thereof, such possession shall be deemed
sufficient evidence to authorize conviction unless the de-
fendant shall explain the possession to the satisfaction of
the jury.
It will be observed that this not excludes from the
United States opium except for medicinal purposes. It is
not unlikely that the Government of the United States may at
an early date enact further legislation to place the entire
manufacture and preparations, and other habit-forming drugs
like cocaine and Indian hemp, under federal supervision and
control.
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