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APPENDIX LXVIII.-Cootd.]
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18. Only adult male Chinese are allowed to smoke in licensed Smokinr
Rooms. .
19. No female or child under 16 years of age. except the licensee or 'he
wife or child of the licensee. is allowed to enter a licensed Smoking Room.
20. The adulteration of the prepared opium issued by the Superintendent
and the counterfeiting of the marks. packets or receptacles used by him are
penalised.
21. All licensed shops are at all times open to inspection by any Revenue
Officer appointed by the Superintendent or by any Police Officer not below
the rank of Sergeant.
22. Licensees are not permitted to sell at prices exceeding the maximum
fixed by law.
23. It is an offence for a person other than a licensee to posse.. more
than 5 tahils of prepared opium or more than one tahil of dross. .
24. The Superintendent buys dross at $4.50 per tahil for 1St quality and
$1.50 for 2nd quality. It is an offence to sell dross to anyone other than
the Superintendent.
25. It is also an offence to reprepare dross for use by application of
artificial heat.
26. All dross bought by the Superintendent is destroyed.
27. Even licensees are not allowed to possess more than 3 tahils of dross
unless expressly authorised by the Superintendent. Licensees of Smoking
Rooms are required to bring in a certain amount of dross of lSt quality for
purchase by the Superintendent under penalty of forfeiture of their Licences.
28. It is an offence to be in possession of any dross obtained from opium
other than that which has been prepared at the Government Factory.
ldentification of such opium is rendered possible by the addition of a minute
quantity of a secret and harmless mgredient. The presence of this
ingredient enables the derived dross also to be identified.