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By resolution of the Legislative "ouncil which came into

force on the 1st of "eptember 1911, the importation of

raw

any kind of Indian opium is forbidden, unless covered by

export permits from the Government of India to the effect

that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption

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This resolutio not apply of immu

in China. The exportation of prepared opium or of

dross opium (i.e. a preparation of opium in which the

the man. residue of opium which has been sacked forms en

ingredient) to China, Trench Indo-Thina, The United

States of America, the Philippine Islands, the

Netherlands Indies, iam and Japan is forbidden under

the provisions of the Opium Ordinance 1909 and Government

otification No.94 of the 1st of April 1910. The

exportation of opium to those places to which it is

lawful can only be carried out with the written permis-

sion of the "perintendent of Imports and Exports.

(b) Morphia, cocaine and other drugs. wars previously

There have-niway, beau restrictions on the

importation and sale of morphia and other deleterious

drugs in the Eastern Colonies and protected States, but

since

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since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission the

legislation on the subject has been amended so as to

impose greater restrictions.

The Feihaiwei Ordinance o.1 of 1909 forbids

any person except qualified medical men and chemists

to import, export, possess, sell or buy any morphine

or other hypnotic including cocaine. Such qualified

persons may only deal in or dispense such drugs for

bona fide medicinal purposes. The only chance which

has been made in the law of Neylon is that dealing

in morphine which up to 1910 was regulated by the

Poisons Ordinance is now regulated by the Opium

Ordinance 1910 and is subjected to the same restric-

tions with regard to importation, sale, and possession

as opium.

Inder the Poisons Ordinance 1901 the sale

of cocaine and other poisonous drugs is subject to

regulations similar to those in force in the United

Kingdom.

Then the Shanghai Commission met the law

in