CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 593

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In that oren the some regulations ng were

bplied in Java were not adopted in their entirety. To travellers

à labourers, who moved from place to plnoc, lioenous, provided 1th thumbprint, valid for more than ono subdistrict wore issuod, urther collective lisoncos wore grentod to distantly situntod Stetos and works.

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To supervise and issue permits it was necessary appoint special officials both in Java and on the East Const of amatrs. Moreover, more police had to be engaged in order to maintain he prohibition lows as much as possible and to counternet the ruggling-trndo botter, Thoro nocess ry this is dono by extending instituting a soperato opium-detectivo-branch which is only gaged in investigation of contraventions of the optum-regulations nd other offences which have come to light in the course thereof.

The system works satisfactorily in Batavie, Ed onuses fewer difficulties than had been expected at its inaugu** ntion.

The expenses connected with it aro, just s in the anse of the identification systom, fairly high. Tho latter, woll as the finishod and unfinishod liconco-systoma, havo na n esult not only reduction of the rovenuo, but also increase of Expenditure.

That the Netherlands-Indian Government, é ven these times of retrenchment, still goes on with the introduction these systems, is certainly the best proof that it still abides the statement made at Shanghai that it would not permit itself o be withheld from taking the measures, which could restrict the onsumption of opium by financial considerations,

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The opium-policy in the Dutch East Indies herefore corresponds with the spirit of the Hague Opium Convention.

order to prove that, as far as it was necessary, the regulations that Convention were fulfilled, we have inserted these regulations tre, with the exception of Chapter IV, which concerns only the

-alled "Treaty Powers", and have indiented shortly what has boon cro therefor in the Dutch East Indies,

finition.

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# CHAPTER I. RAW OPIUM"

By raw opium" is undorstood

The spontaneously coagulated jutuo obtained from the expsules of the papaver somniforum, which has only boon submitted to the necessary manipulation for packing and transport".