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RAILWAYS.

No. 21 of 1909.

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(g) Government stamps;

(h) bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank notes, and orders or other securities for payment of money;

(i) maps, writings and title-deeds;

(j) paintings, engravings, lithographs, photographs, carvings, sculp- ture, and other works of art;

(k) art pottery and all articles made of glass, china or marble;

(1) silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials;

(m) shawls;

(n) lace and furs.

(0) opium;

(p) ivory, ebony, coral, and sandalwood;

(9) musk, sandalwood-oil, and other essential oils used in the pre- paration of perfume;

(r) musical and scientific instruments;

(s) any article of special value which the Governor-in-Council may, by notification, add to this schedule.

No. 22 of 1909, incorporated in No. 2 of 1892.

No. 23 of 1909.

To amend and consolidate the laws relating to Opium and its

Compounds.

1. The Opium Ordinance, 1909.

2. In this Ordinance,-

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[2nd September, 1909.]

Raw opium means any kind of opium not prepared for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting, and includes the leaves or wrappings in which opium balls have been wrapped :

Prepared opium" means any preparation of opium or any pre- paration in which opium forms an ingredient which preparation is used or intended to be used for smoking, but it does not include dross opium or any of the alkaloids or salts of the alkaloids of opium :

* As amended by No. 12 of 1912.

As amended by No. 11 of 1910, No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912, No. 13 of 1912, No. 22 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion of terms.

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