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of opium smoking in brothels which had been a lucrative

(In the settlin 1 Labuan which

export is countersigned by the British Agent at Trengganu

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or the Siamese Consul General at Singapore as the case

may be.

though illegal addition to the farmers' profits.

The Federated Malay States in 1909 were vided

into Coastal and Mon-Coastal areas.

In the former the

at present stil onbject to the for Item the Sot Take wr

No restrictions on exportation from the

Federated Malay States are provided by law, since

they receive their supplies from the Straits Settle-

ments and the Colony only imports sufficient raw

same system as existed in the Straits Settlements was

established. In the latter,which were largely in the

hands of farmers, only raw opium might be imported and;

the manufacture and sale of chandu were in the hands

monopoly sys at the end of 19 when the fam expires, trans have also been made to suff the state 2M 21 Bomes nati The P-9 Jang With chanin

of the farmer or of licensed persons. Since the lat

of January 1911 however the system in force in the

Straits Settlements has been extended not only over

the whole of the Federated Malay States but over all

the other protected States in the Peninsula with the

axcaption of Kelantan and Trengganu where it has not

yet been found possible to cancel the existing farms.

The Government of the Straits Settlements imports, pra

when the pres farm will tominated lender this and ment the Sist with with. The pares and supplies all the chandu needed by the Stated the mouth Lamount to headed & will

In the Straits Settlements the Governor in Council

has power to prohibit the exportation of raw opium or

of Chandu, or to impose limitations and conditions on

exportation. At present opium may not be exported to

"rengganu and Siam except when the requisition for the

110220 abor pice play freight chang

opium for its own needs and those of the

it supplies

States

tates which

The Government of "long Tong has not found

it practicable to take the monopoly of the importation

preparation and sale of opium into its own hands but

since the meeting of the "hanghai Commission res-

trictions on the traffic have been made by the

limitation of the farmer to a certain number of

chests per annum (800 in 1911) by the suppression of

opium aivans, and by forbiauing the sale of prepared

opium to any person other than an adult male.

The preparation and sale of opium is vested

in the farmer, and raw opium can only be imported by

him or by a person possessing a permit signed by a

Government officer and countersigned by the farmer.

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