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APPENDIX III.
Extracts from Excise Rules regulating morphia in the different provinces of British India. (Paragraph 23 of Despatch.)
MADRAS.
I. In these rules, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context,~~~
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(4) "Intoxicating drugs" includes all intoxicating or narcotic preparations of opium and of the poppy, but does not include poppy heads as hereinafter defined.
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(9) Licensed druggist" means a person who has obtained from the Collector a licensa for the retail sale of opium, intoxicating drugs other than those used for smoking, and popey heads for medicinal purposes:
(10) "Licensed chemist" means a person who has obtained from the Collector a special license for the wholesale sale, in the town of Madras, of opium, intoxicating drugs other than those used for smoking, and poppy heade for medicinal purposes.
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MANUFACTURE,
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II. The manufacture of intoxicating drugs is permitted-
(4) by any person, for his private consumption and not for sale, in such quantities and
from such opium as he may be entitled to possess under Rule III or Rule VII;
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(6) by any (* } licensed chemist or druggist in accordance with the terms of
his license.
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III. Any person may have in his possession-
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(6) any quantity not exceeding ten grains of morphia or preparations thereof,
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Provided that the said article, from a
licensed draggist; or manufactured for private consumption from opium (obtained from a licensed vendor or drug- gist).
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shall have been obtained by purchase
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V. Any licensed druggist may have in his possession, for purposes of retail sale, any quantity not exceeding→
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(b) 240 grains of morphia or preparations thereof.
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VI.-A licensed chemist may have in his possession for sale for medicinal purposes only such quantities of
intoxicating drugs other than those used for smoking, * as may be required by him.
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VII. Any person, if specially authorised by the Collector with the sanction of the Board but not otherwise, may have in his possession any quantity of toxicating drugs.