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In large pinces further, opium may only be sold on a buying-card belonging to the permit. The buying-card is periodically renewed(1) The licensees do not always require to come themselves to buy but can order this to be done by a servant or a member of the house- hold; the sending along of the licence to the opium-shop is also unnecessary; only the buying-card requires to be brought along. At the introduction, arragements were made whereby it was possible for those who did not wish publicly to ask a permit (e.g. do Chinese women, pers ns of standing, and such like) to apply if necessary direct to the Controller of the Opium-rugio or an officia of the anti-opium scrviso through the intermodiary of a relativo, Licences havo ovon boon issued on which only a numb、r appears, and not the mamo of the liconsco; this person is then only known to
It is not made too difficult the official who issued the pormit. for those who r pessors-through and the crews of ships, to obtain opium. Travel rs, who cannot do without opium can, for so far as they are also required to have a licence in their town of residence, bring this, or otherwise a paper issued on behalf of tho official in ohrgo of the distriot, on shoving which they can obtain ~oard for a spocified period hero, while those who have to stry here repentodly on apply for liconce for the use of opium,
that the This was based on the principle endeavour must be to restrict the use of opium throughout Java, and to control it, and that it is only then of use to prohibit some one, who in one place is allowed to smoke opium, from doing go in another licence-aren, when the number of licenseos in the lattor is only so small that it can be expootod, that within a short timo that district ann bo ontiroly closed to pium.
Tho systom theroforo does not compel the
But it bonafide consumer to have recourse to smuggled opium, formed an obstacle to those who were accustomed to buy much more opium than their income would allow them to do, and who destined most of the opium bought for ro-sale or forbidden op ort to other parts of Netherlands India,
An unfinished licenco-system has also be on introducod in the still not closed portion of the plantation area of the Enst Const of Sumata. Also in that district tho rovonuo from
Thoro voro indictions that some of the opium greatly incronsod. opium bought was clandestinely carried to Banke and other distriots
Upon inquiry it moreover with stringent restrictive measures. transpired that many Chinese coolies had never smoked opium prior to their arrival in Deli, and had only begun to use opium there for the first time.
(1) specimens of licence and buying-card nre included as
dicos II and III.
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