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Opium may not be sold to women, or to children
under 16 years of age.
The maximum quantity which any vendor may keep in
stock is 5 taels of prepared opium.
Opium- smoking establishments are prohibited by law,
and it is forbidden to conduct such establishments or to
Offences against this law are punishable and
use them.
are subject to summary judgment.
The opium police services, which used to be under
the authority of the chief officer of the port, were
transferred in 1923 to that of the Director of Finance.
The supervision of the opium traffic is now in the hands
of a superintendent, 4 treasury officials and 4 police
officers, who have to examine all cases of raw opium
imported by the concessionaire and all cages or bales
of prepared opium sent for export by the concessionaire
under the terms of his contract.
Travellers' luggage is liable to be searched by th
police, but it should be remembered that the passenger
traffic at Macao amounts to more than 1,000,000 persons
per year.
Merchant ships which have become suspect may be
searched by the representatives of the superintendent.
Captains of ships are bound to seize any raw opium
which is not entered in the slip's manifest as soon as the
learn of its existence, and they are bound to hand over
the opium so seized to the superintendent atacao.