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50
OPIUM PURCHAsers at LicenSED SHOPS in the GRAVETS between 10 a. and 5 PM. on the 29th January 1894, with PARTICULARS as to the PURCHASERS and their PURCHASES.
Name of Street.
No.
Bab-division.
of House.
(1. Market Street
Four Gravets
(2.)
Ditto
Ditto
Purchasers.
Malays and
Moom.
Bishalose.
89
58
80
30
(2.)
19
10
Name of Licensee.
(1.) Packir Bawa Usuf -
(2.) Mohammodo Lebbe Maricar
Total.
Tamila.
Others.
.9*
5
NA
famait L. Maricar.
Number of Salesmen.
a. How many consumed on the premises!
2
55
6. How many carried away their purchases?
e. How many were females ?
d. How many were apparently under 90 years old?
4.
8.
C.
d.
2
74 86
.12 6
74 86
8
6
4
H. AMBANTOLA.
C. A. MURBAT,
A. W. A.
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As regards opium, if we adopt the Burmah treatment we shall make it impossible practically for carters or cattleowners to get opium for cattle, or for consumers in distant places to get it even when ordered by a doctor. Such a drastic regulation might do harm; if the harm can be avoided, the regulation should be passed.
J. A. SWETTENHAM-
It would be undesirable to interfere with the use of opium. The use of bhang is, in my opinion, such an evil that extreme measures should be adopted to suppress its use, provided such measures are feasible. I agree with the Auditor-General that it would be impossible for Government to destroy it whenever it may be found growing, and · unless that can be done there is no practical way of preventing its being used.
C. P. LAYARD.
I agree with the foregoing opinions generally. Recourse to the habitual abuse of opium and bhang must be combatted in other ways than absolute prohibition. Looking to the good uses to which opium is put, I doubt the propriety of justice of increasing the import duty by way of checking the consumption.
E. NOIL WALKER.
February 22, 1894.
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OPIUM PURCHASERS at LICENSED SHOP in the GRAVETS between 6 ax. and 12 PM. on the 20th January 1894, with ParticulARS as to the PURCHASERS and their PURCHASES.
Name of Street.
Sub-division.
No.
of House.
Name of Licenses.
Tangall Bassar
Tangalla
34
Ahangama Morenchige Wathihami
Purchasers.
Total.
Malays
Sinhalese.
Tamils,
Others.
38
5
38
Number of Baloemen.
a. How many consumed on the premises?
2
b. How many ourried away their purchases? e. How many wore fammaiss !
d. How many were apparently under 20 years old ?
4.
..
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Enclosure 3 in No. 6,
OPINIONS,
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All above 20 years.
I am of opinion that it would be undesirable in any case to interfere with the use of opium. As regards bhang, if steps could be taken that would be effective, and which would not give rise to greater evils than they would suppress, I would support such steps being taken, but I believe nothing but the prevention of the growing of every description of Indian hemp in Ceylon, and the prohibition of its import, would have any effect. The use of bhang has not become such an evil as to justify such extreme measures.
February 16, 1894.
F. R. SAUNDERS.
I should like to restrict both, but I fear the practical difficulties in the way of action are insuperable.
Suppose you prohibit bhang growing, as hashish is prohibited in Turkey, is Govern- ment prepared to destroy it whenever it may be found growing? Even then, has it a staff on which it can rely to prevent the growth! I am certain that it has not.
Enclosure 4 in No. 6.
From the REVENUE SKØRETARY to the CHIEF COMMISSIONER to the COLONIAL SECRETARY, Colombo, dated Rangoon, the 18th December 1898. Sra,
Revenue Secretary's Office. I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 13th September 1893, asking for information concerning opium and bhang in Burma.
2. As regards bhang, I am to say that this drug has been absolutely prohibited in Burma for the last 20 years. No statistics, therefore, are available giving information as to the extent of its consumption. It has never been consumed to any extent by Burmans. It is believed that Natives of India amaggle it into Burma and consume it in considerable quantities. It is not possible to stop this smuggling, although sevETO penalties are inflicted on persons found guilty of smuggling or possessing the drug.
3. As regards opium, I am to say that at present this drug is prohibited to Burmans in Upper Burma, but that persons of other races are permitted to possess and consume it in small quantities. In Lower Burma, the possession and consumption of the drug is permitted to persons of all classes.
From the 1st January 1894, a new system will be introduced under which the possession and consumption of opium will be prohibited to all classes both in Upper and Lower Burma except-
(i.) Non-Burmans, ie., persons of non-Burmese races.
(i.) Burmans in Lower Burma who have become habitusted to the use of the drug. and who register themselves as habitual consumers before the 30th June 1894. I am to enclose three copies of a note which has recently been presented to the Royal Commission on Opium, and which gives a full account of the new system which is to be introduced from the 1st January 1894.
4. With regard to your request to be furnished with papers showing the results of experiments made in Burma to control the immoderate use of opium, I am to say that it is not at present possible to say whether the experiments made hitherto have attained their object. The question of taking measures to restrict the use of opium in Lower Burma was first considered in 1879 and 1880. The conclusion then arrived-as was that the use of opium was spreading among the Burmese, that its use was deleterious, and that it was desirable to check consumption by the reduction of the number of licensesď shops. The number of shops was accordingly reduced by more than one-half, and further reductions have been made in recent years. It is doubtful, however, whether these measures have had any great affect in reducing consumption, as tho reduction in the number of licensed shops has, it is believed, been followed by a large increase in sales by illegal agencies. It is in consequence of the supposed failure of G&
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