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which they re not permitted to take my ony orium. under the law, persons who do not hold ordinary smoking licenses will not be allowed in opium shops (see Orium Law Soction 32 -d- ) and are liable to cunishment if found, the The opium danger of re-sale is practically done easy with.
a'ops are nearly all situated in comparatively rell-popu- leted places, and re this subject to frequent inspection by officials. In nearly every Amphur district there are now two Revenue officials, one acting ng accountant and the other es inspector, and among the latter's duties is the inspection of opium shops. Eventually every Amphur district will have these two officials.
It is obvious that the duty of inspecting a few shops is a very much easier one then the insreoting of the private residences of numerous registered smokers. if the latter
Under the system to be put were allowed to smoke at home, in force in this country the control of smokers and the crevention of new smokers taking to the habit are well pro- vided for.
37. The question of control over retailers remains to be dealt with. The system es devised for this country is as follows:-
Each retailer willbe supplied with rolls of tickets numbered consecutively like those used on tremways, de,
The tickets 11l be of four different colours corres- ronding to the four sizos of the opium tubes supplied to smokers in opium shops.
Under the new lay the consumer is required to present bis pass book on making his purchase, vide_{inisterial
The reta ler hegulations, Cleude 6 and pare 21 above. will enter in his rass book the quantity taken, the dete and the number of the shop. In practice this will be done by using a hand stamp to indicate the size of tube taken, and another hand stamp to indicete the size and number of the shop. At the same time, he will write on a ticket of the colour corresconding to the size of the tube, the customer's register number and will also stamp it with the date and number of his shop.
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In this way every tube of octum supplied to con-
Then the re- sumers will be automatically accounted for, tailer comes to the Nai Aurhur for further supplies of orium, he will tear off from the roll the tickets already stamped and hand them over to the Nel Amphur as his re- turns of opium sold. The tickets may then be checked, as regerds number and name of license holder, with the register opium smokers compiled in the Nai Aaphur's office, and the particulars entered either in recount books, duclicate
This work may be done by clerks pass books or index cards,
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