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In that are the same regulations лs were
applied in Java were not adopted in their entirety. To travellers md labourers, who moved from place to plaoc, licencus, provided with
thumbprint, valid for more than one subdistrict were issued, Further collective lioonoos wore grintod to distantly situstod Estates and works,
To supervise and issue permits it was necessary to appoint special officials both in Java and on the East Const of Sumatra. Moreover, more police had to be engaged in order to maintain the prohibition lowa na much as possible and to countornot the smuggling-trado botter. Whoro necess"ry this is dono by extending
which is only or instituting a soperato opium-detective-bronsh engaged in investigation of contraventions of the opium-regulations. and other offences which have come to light in the course thereof, The system works satisfactorily in Batavia, end onuses fewer difficulties than had been expected at its inqugu- rntion.
The expenses connooted with it aro, just s
The lattor, in the case of the identifie~tion systom, fairly high. as woll as tho finishod and unfinished licenoo-systoms, hayo ng n result not only reduction of the revenuo, but also increase of expenditure.
That the Netherlands-Indian Government, e ven in these times of retrenchment, still goes on with the introduction of these systems, is certainly the best proof that it still abides by the statement made at Shanghai that it would not permit itself to be withheld from taking the measures, which could restrict the consumption of opium by financial considerations.
XIII.
The opium-policy in the Dutch East Indies therefore corresponds with the spirit of the Hague Opium Convention, In order to prove that, as far as it was necessary, the regulations
of that Convention were fulfilled, we have inserted those regulations here, with the exception of Chapter IV, which concerns only the So-called "Trenty Powers", and have indiented shortly what has been done therefor in the Dutch East Indios.
"CHAPTER 1, RAW OPIUM"
Definition. By "row opium" is undorstood
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The spontaneously coagulated Juico obtained from the sapsules of tho papaver somniferum, which has only boon submitted to the neecssary manipulation for packing and transport",
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