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At the ombilin-mines the use of opium is
forbidden to the chain-gongors as from 1st April 1915, It was still permitted to the free labourers on a personal permit, but since January 1910, all legol use of opium has also come to on ond.
Also for othor Government undertakings rogulations were formulated. These are Act drosely applied, so that a Government circular was drawn up in 1921, in which it was pointed out that it had appeared. that when labourera were recruited for the Government undertakings or public works account was not always taken of the approved principles as regards the use of opium, often on account of ignorance of the existing regulations. It was therefore considered desirable that the
attention of the heads of these undertakings be called to this matter, at the same time making known the principles of the opium policy, which to prevent misunderstanding were recalled to mind.
In the first place the use of opium must everywhere be combated. where the Government is in its own bounds,
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As parts in its own bounds" must be considered all Government mining and agricultural undertakings, and further all Public Works, where the housing o the labourers is looked after by the Government.
In places where the labourers have to look after their own housing, care will have to be taken, that no opium is used during work, but the smoking of opium outside of that does not require to be forbidden, if the local laws relating to the Opiumregie allow that a permit to possess and transport regie-spium oan be issued without the previoua consent of the Governor-Genera 1.
In connection with the widely differing regulations for the opiumregie in the different parts of Nether- lands India, the heads in charge of the above-mentioned works will have to satisfy themselves first if opium-smokers may also be reoruited, before engaging labourers from other places,
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If that should appear not to be the case, then they
Just the same as those in charge of undertakings and works There the housing is provided for the coolies will have to inform those
who are in charge of the recruiting, or through whose inter- mediary the labourers are recruited, that no opium-smokers may be recruited, and that if opium-smokers should be discovered amongst the labourers engaged through their intermediary all the same, these will be returned at their expense,
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