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9. All chandu officers, police constables, and penghulus may, without a war- rant, arrest people suspected of committing an offence against this Enactment.

All chintings shall wear Government badges.

10. 11.

When a chandu officer suspects any house of being used for committing an offence against this Enactment, he may take out a warrant from the Court, enter and search such house.

12. A Magistrate, if he sees fit to go and search such house personally with the chandu officer who has made the report, may do so without a warrant.

13. People who fail to answer truthfully questions put to them by a chandu officer who inspects their goods or articles on their persons shall be guilty of an uffence.

14. In actions instituted under this Enactment no one shall be compelled to reveal the name of an informant.

15. The Government has the right of selling chandu at shops in places pre scribed by the State Council.

16. The Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly may issue licences to persons authorising them to sell chandu. Such licences are of two kinds: the first for chandu shops, authorising the holder to sell chandu to be consumed only off the premises. and the second for smoking-houses, authorising the holder to sell chandu to be con- sumed on the premises only.

17. All applications for licences shall be addressed to the Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly, and shall state the name of the applicant, the chop of the shop, and the place wherein it is situated.

18. The Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly may require security from persons taking out licences to ensure their compliance with any orders issued in regard to chandu.

19. All chandu shops and smoking-houses shall hang the licence boards outside the shops to show that they are licensed, and such boards shall be obtained from the office of the Government Chandu Monopoly on payment of $1 apiece. Such boards shall be changed on the occasion of every application for a licence.

20. The period of chandu licences may be for any number of months not exceeding six months.

21. A fee of $1-a month shall be charged on licences.

22. A licence may, with the permission of the Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly, be transferred on payment of a fee of $2.

23. Female persons and male persons under 15 years of age and notorious bad characters, known to be such by the person controlling a smoking-house, shall not be admitted into the house.

24. All chandu shops and smoking houses shall keep books of account of the purchases and sales of chandu, and shall produce when required such books to the Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly, or to officers authorised by him in writing.

25. Chandu shops and smoking-houses shall sell the chandu for cash.

26. The Superintendent of the Chandu Monopoly has the right of cancelling the licences of chandu shops and smoking-houses at any time.

27. Any person guilty of an offence against Sections Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this Enactment is liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, and for a second offence is liable to a fine not exceeding $3,000, or imprisonment not exceeding two years.

28.

All articles seized and forming the subject of an offence under this Enact- ment may, with the Court's order, be confiscated.

29. All fines and articles confiscated under this Enactment shall be credited to the chandu revenue.

30. People other than those licensed by the Government are prohibited from opening a smoking-house.

31. The smoking of chandu is strictly prohibited except in one's own house or in a smoking-house.

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I doubt whether these figures can be taken as strictly accurate.

but I think they are approximately correct.

The

2. I regret that I can find no figures for the year A.H. 1328. The other figures have been taken from the reports of His Siamese Majesty's Commissioner and Adviser, but for that year, the last complete year under the Siamese regime, no report was published and no figures can be found in any of the offices here. approximate amount would probably be 35 chests, value $30,000, as there was no reason why the amount should differ greatly from the imports of the previous and subsequent years.

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3. I also enclose a copy of the Kelantan Opium Farms Regulations, which is the only Enactment at present in force. This Enactment will be superseded by the 30th April, 1913, when the present farms expire and Government opium is to be brought into use.

The Secretary to

I have, &c.,

J. E. BISHOP, Acting British Adviser to the Government of Kelantan.

the High Commissioner for the Malay States,

Year.

Singapore.

RETURN OF OPIUM IMPORTED INTO THE STATE OF KELANTAN.

1323 (1st June, 1905, to 23rd February, 1906) 1324 (24th February, 1906, to 14th February, 1907) 1325 (15th February, 1907, to 4th February, 1908) 1326 (5th February, 1908, to 22nd January, 1909) 1327 (23rd January, 1909, to 12th January, 1910) 1328 (13th January, 1910, to 31st December, 1910) 1911 1912

Enclosure 4 in No. 164.

TRENGGANU.

Opium Returns.

T. P.

January February March

April

May

June

July

August September October

November

December

Total

1909.

1910.

1911.

Quantity. Chests. 26

Value.

$

21,200

35

29,643

33

28,584

(Not available.)

41

33,802

37 41

59,773

67,173

127

168,334

K. T. K. D. T. P. D. K.

201

1912.

T.

I'.

K.

2

42

2 4

18 23 13 2 22 2

3

31

GRAND TOTAL...

66 Chests.

38 Cheats.

37 Chests.

T. Trengganu.

P. Paka.

40 Chests.

SIR,

In reply to your letter, showing the amount of opium

Enclosure 3 in No. 164.

KELANTAN.

The Residency, Kelantan, 24th February, 1913.

I have the honour to forward herewith a return imported into Kelantan as far as there are any

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D). Dungun. WALTER D. SCOTT,

K. Kemaman.

British Agent, Trengganu.

• Not reprinted.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

Tim C.O. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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