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rich or poor, must attend at their superintending police-station or tithing room, and fill in a form showing their names, ages, addresses, and daily consumption of opium. This form will be registered, and a return must be made before the 11th January, 1910, of the number on the registers of (a) towns (b) country districts, and of the amount of prepared opium required. As each person abandons the habit, his permit ("yen-p'ai") must be recovered for cancellation. The monthly returns are to give totals, not names; they are needed to check the monthly decrease, and to compile the yearly report to the Board. So if, as heretofore, local officials trifle, procrastinate, or neglect to report, those officials will be punished as in section 7.
10. Persons employed in the registrar's district, but having their homes in another district, must not be registered twice over. If they cease to be employed and return to their homes, they may report their change of domicile.
Chapter IV.--Permits to Smoke.
11. Section 2 of the regulations issued by the Reform Council ("cheng-wu-ch'u") required a printed permit, duly sealed, to be taken out by each smoker. Anvone smoking or buying opium without a permit would be punished, and after the inst inspection no permits will be issued. In Szechuan permits of the "A" and "B" classes were prepared, but no readiness was shown in applying for them. This laxity must cease, aud, ten days after receipt of the present regulations, a return must be made of the old A." and "B" permits, and the fees must be sent in. When the intendant receives the list of smokers, then, in addition to the "A" and "B" permits earlier issued, supplementary permits will be granted to smokers unprovided with these certificates. These supplementary permits will be issued through the local authorities to the police or the tithing-wards aud filled in. Each smoker will receive his permit and pay his fee, as a condition precedent to buying and smoking. When this new issue is completed, the smokers' list will be closed, and no further permits granted.
12. The new permits, whether for residents or travellers, will be good for two months. His daily allowance will be noted on each permit. Wherever the holder may be, he must change his permit at the end of the two months, otherwise he will be treated as an illicit purchaser of opium.
13. Permits are only good within the bounds of the province. When changed at a town other than that of issue, the permit must be surrendered at that town and fees paid there. A return is to be made of those fees, and they are to be forwarded, together with those paid by residents, to the intendant.
14. Visitors from other provinces, on arrival in Szechuan, must apply for permits through the landlord of their fun, and conform to the regulations.
15. Holders of the old "A" permits were allowed three years within which to abandon smoking. The present supplementary permits ("pu-fa-chih pai") give one year only.
"B" permits remain at three months, counting from the day of issue.
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16. New permits must be dated, and entries written in full, not in figures. 17. New "A" and
B" permits, and all renewals, pay a fee of 100 cash. The total receipts are to be sent quarterly to the intendant in silver to cover printing, paper, and
wages, the balance" going to the Chengtu Opium Refuge ("chich-yen tsung-hui").
Chapter V.-Penalties.
18. Establishments storing raw opium ("tun-t'u-chih chia "), whatever the quantity, must report purchases and sales in towns to the police, and in the country to the tithing ward, who in their turn will report to the head office. All must be sold before the 10th July, 1910. If this cannot be done, then application must be made to the head office to buy. Sales to outsiders will not be allowed. If the date is over. passed, or the head office is not informed, or if the quantity is understated, then the whole stock will be confiscated, its value going towards the expenses of local Government.
19. Szechuan raw opium cannot be exported after the 7th July. If after that date persous are, by the frontier stations ("yen-pien cbu"), found in possession of it, these will be fined one-tenth of its value for every ten days. The balances will be sent with its owner by the station to the place whence it was derived, and will be purchased there by the head office. If found after three months have expired (that is after the 6th October), the whole will be confiscated, one-half going to the informer and one-half sent by the preventive service (" ch'a-chi ssu-t'u chu") to Chengtu.
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20. Private persons boiling opium either for their own use or for sale will be punished by confiscation of the drug, 30 per cent, going to the informer and 70 per cent. towards local Government.
21. The duty of looking out for contraband opium, raw or prepared, devolves in towns on the police, and in the country on the tithing ward; no others may intermeddle. No domiciliary visits will be allowed before the 7th July.
Chapter VI.-Addendum.
22. Endeavours must be made to get everyone in Szechuan to abandon the habit before the limit of time fixed by decrce. When the smokers' lists are complete, and the amount of prepared opium required has been estimated, a date will be proposed by the intendant.
Translated March 1, 1910.
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