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In that aron the same regulations as were
applied in Jaya were not "dopted in their entirety. To trevellers md labourers, who mevod from plnoe to plaoo, licencos, provided with thumbprint, valid for more than one subdistrict wore issuod, Further collectivo licencos wore grintod to distantly situated Estrtos nd works,
To supervise and issue permits it was necessary to appoint special officials both in Java and on the East Coast of Sumatra, Moreover, more police had to be engaged in order to maintain the prohibition lows na much re possible and to counteract the smuggling-trndo better, Thoro ncccss ry this is done by extending
which is only or instituting a separato Opium-de tochivo-branch engaged in investigation of contraventions of the opium-regulations. and other offences which have come to light in the course thereof,
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The system works satisfactorily in Batovia, and causes fewer difficulties than had been expected at its inaugu- ration,
The expenses connected with it oro, just ng
Tho lattor,
in the onso of tho idontification systom, fairly high. as woll as the finished and unfinished licenco-systoms, havo na n result not only reduction of the revonuo, but also incronse of expenditure,
That the Netherlands-Indien Government, e ven in these times of retrenchment, still goes on with the introduction that it still abides of these systema, is certainly the best proof by the statement made at Shanghai that it would not permit itself
which could restrict tho to be withheld from taking the mensuros, consumption of opium by Financial considerations,
XIII.
The opium-policy in the Dutch East Indies therefore sorresponds with the spirit of the Hague Opium Convention, In order to prove that, as for as it was necessary, the regulations
of that Convention were fulfilled, we have inserted those regulations here, with the exception of Chapter IV, which concerns only the 80-galled "Treaty Powers", and have indiented shortly what has been done therefor in the Dutch East Indios,
CHAPTER I. RAW OPTUM"
Definition. By "row opium" is understood $
"The spontaneously coagulated juico obtained from the epsules of the papaver somniforum, which has only been submitted to the noocsanry manipulation for packing and transport".