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OX THE HABITUAL USE Of OPIUM 
Section 7th- Enacts that all persons who may be found smoking 
after 9 o’clock in any other house save and except th sir usual place 
of abode, shall forfeit Rs. 100 and the owner of the house the 
like. 
Section 8th. No gambling shall be permitted in any Opium shop 
under a penalty of Rs. 100. 
Section 9th. No person shall be admitted into any opium house 
with any kind of arms, weapons, or edged tools, and for every breach 
of this rule the holder of the house shall be liable to a line of Rs. 100. 
Section 10th, Opium not to be sold except for current Coin. 
Section 11th. Riotous or quarrelsome persons to be delivered 
over to the Police. 
Section 12th. Enacts that all persons desirous of selling Opium 
in less quantity that one chest shall cause it to be delivered to the 
purchaser in presence of the collector or his officer, who will grant 
a permit to ship it, what remains shall remain in the hands of the 
collector until other permits are given for shipment, the penalties the 
same as described in Clause 2d. Sec. 5. 
Section 13th. Enacts that no Opium he allowed to be prepared 
in the Straits Settlements on board of any vessel under the penalties 
described in Section 4. 
Section 14th. Enacts that no Opium shall be sold on board of 
any vessel in less quantity than one chest under the penalties describ¬ 
ed in Section 5 ; but this rule is not to prevent the destribution for use 
of ship’s crew. 
Section 15th. Enacts that the collector and his officers, and every 
person duly licensed to sell opium prepared and unprepared, shall be 
at liberty to repair on board of any vessel at anchor in the harbour 
of Prince of Wales’ Island, Singapore and Malacca, or within 10 
miles of the coast, for the purpose of searching for Opium illicitly 
prepared or retailed contrary to the provisions of this regulation, on 
obtaining a Search Warrant from a Magistrate to be issued on the 
oath of the public officer or <s other person licensed, that to the best 
of their knowledge and belief such opium is on board the vessel.’’ 
Section 16th. Enacts that none bqt those licensed shall be allow’- 
