of opium smoking in brothels which had been a lucrative
(In the settlin 1 Labuan which
export is countersigned by the British Agent at Trengganu
164
or the Siamese Consul General at Singapore as the case
may be.
though illegal addition to the farmers' profits.
The Federated Malay States in 1909 were vided
into Coastal and Mon-Coastal areas.
In the former the
at present stil onbject to the for Item the Sot Take wr
No restrictions on exportation from the
Federated Malay States are provided by law, since
they receive their supplies from the Straits Settle-
ments and the Colony only imports sufficient raw
same system as existed in the Straits Settlements was
established. In the latter,which were largely in the
hands of farmers, only raw opium might be imported and;
the manufacture and sale of chandu were in the hands
monopoly sys at the end of 19 when the fam expires, trans have also been made to suff the state 2M 21 Bomes nati The P-9 Jang With chanin
of the farmer or of licensed persons. Since the lat
of January 1911 however the system in force in the
Straits Settlements has been extended not only over
the whole of the Federated Malay States but over all
the other protected States in the Peninsula with the
axcaption of Kelantan and Trengganu where it has not
yet been found possible to cancel the existing farms.
The Government of the Straits Settlements imports, pra
when the pres farm will tominated lender this and ment the Sist with with. The pares and supplies all the chandu needed by the Stated the mouth Lamount to headed & will
In the Straits Settlements the Governor in Council
has power to prohibit the exportation of raw opium or
of Chandu, or to impose limitations and conditions on
exportation. At present opium may not be exported to
"rengganu and Siam except when the requisition for the
110220 abor pice play freight chang
opium for its own needs and those of the
it supplies
States
tates which
The Government of "long Tong has not found
it practicable to take the monopoly of the importation
preparation and sale of opium into its own hands but
since the meeting of the "hanghai Commission res-
trictions on the traffic have been made by the
limitation of the farmer to a certain number of
chests per annum (800 in 1911) by the suppression of
opium aivans, and by forbiauing the sale of prepared
opium to any person other than an adult male.
The preparation and sale of opium is vested
in the farmer, and raw opium can only be imported by
him or by a person possessing a permit signed by a
Government officer and countersigned by the farmer.
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export