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opium was adjusted, the sale, transfer, and exportation of opium were restricted, and offenders against these res-
The prin- trictions were subjected to corporal punishment. cipal points in the control under the present Opium Law are given hereunder:-
Opium manufacture: Any person who proposes to cul- tivate the poppy and manufacture opium must previously oby tain the permission of the local governor and not later than a fixed day every year, report to him the locality and area of poppy cultivation; the crude opium manufactured must all be made over to the local governor, and the Hy- gienic Laboratory of the Home Department after examination, grants compensation for such opium according to the quan- tity of morphine contained therein.
The Hygienic GOVERNMENTAL SALE OF MEDICINAL OPIUM. Laboratory of the Home Department examines the quantity of morphine in the opium mentioned in the preceding paragraph and makes therefrom medicinal opium (containing from 10 to 11 per cent. of morphine) according to the prescription of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, in three sets of bottles, the first containing five grammes, the second 25 grammes and the third 450 grammes.
These bottles are sealed with Go- They are vernment labels and have prices marked on them. sold in quantities applied for by local governors to dealers designated by them, and these dealers must report to the local governors the quantities sold by them every year.
SALE OF MEDICINAL OPTUM. A medical practitioner, a dental or veterinary surgeon, a pharmacist, or a medicine- manufacturer, who requires medicinal opium must purchase it from a dealer therein (who is a pharmacist ar`a druggist)) designated by the local governor, by presenting an applica- tion with his seal affixed thereto, stating the quantity required, object of its use, his name, occupation, and the locality of his office or place of business, and date of application, and certified if the quantity exceeds fifty grammes, by the local governor, and if it does not exceed that quantity, by the police authorities having jurisdic- tion; a provision is made, however, that if a medical prac- titioner or a pharmacist is in urgent need of opium for compounding purposes and has no time to apply for certifi- cation by the administrative authorities, he may dispense with such certification if the quantity required is a bottle of five grammes; but the quantity so obtainable is restrict- ed to five bottles a year,