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which they re not permitted to take my any opium, under the law, persons who do not hold ordinary smoking licenses ill not be allowed in opium shops (ace Orium Law Section 32 -d- ) and are liable to cunishment if found, the danger of re-sale is practically done 27ay with. The opium shops are nearly all situated in comparatively welI-popu- leted places, and are this subject to frequent inspection by officials, In nearly every Amphur district there are now two Revenue officials, one acting as accountant and the other es inspector, and among the latter's Auties is the inspection of opium shops. Eventually every Amphur district will have these two officials,
It is obvious that the duty of inspecting a few shops is a very much easier one then the insrecting of the private residences of numerous registered smokers, if the latter were allowed to smoke at home. Under the system to be put in force in this country the control of smokers and the prevention of new smokers taking to the habit are well pro- vided for.
37. The question of control over retailers remains to be dealt with. The system as devised for this country is as follows:-
Each retailer willbe supplied with rolls of tickets numbered consecutively like those used on tramways, ¿c.
The tickets will be of four different colours corres- conding to the four sizes of the opium tubes supplied to smokers in opium shops,
Under the new law the consumer is required to present his pess book on making his purchase, videiinisterial hegulations, Claude 6 and para 21 above. The reta
ler
will enter in his rass book the quantity taken, the dete and the number of the shop, In practice this will be done
by using a hand stamp to indicate the size of tube taken, and another hand stamp to indicate the size and number of the shop. At the same time, he will write on a ticket of the colour corresconding to the size of the tube, the customer's register number and will also stamp it with the date and number of his shop.
38. In this way every tube of opium supplied to con- sumers will be automatically accounted for. When the re- teiler comes to the Nai Anphur for further suplies of ocium, he will tear off from the roll the tickets already stamped and hand them over to the Nai Amphur as his re- turns of opium sold, The tickets ney then be checked, as regards number and name of license holder, with the register orium smokers conciled in the Nai Amphur's office. and the particulars entered either in ccount books, duclicate pass bocks or index carda, This work may be done by clerks