Section 29 in Executive Instructions Relating to Opium
29. Confiscated opium how to disposed of.
(a)The Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup, will collect all contraband opium of the Province and send to the Opium Factory, Ghazipur, in one lot on 1st June and 1st December each year. Contraband opium thus collected should be reweighed in presence of the Superintendent of Excise and a Magistrate whom the Deputy Commissioner may depute before despatch to Ghazipur. All consignments should be despatched by goods train as for as possible and not by passenger train. Consignment should be sent 'freight to pay.'In respect of these consignments, the Government of India will, in addition to railway freight, bear also other transport and packing charges and will also pay for such opium on the basis of the morphine content to be determined in the manner indicated below :All the contraband opium received in the factory from the different Provinces would be made into alkaloids and from the quantity of alkaloids obtained, the factory would determine the morphine strength of the total amount of contraband opium received from all the Provinces. The factory would then determine on the basis of the morphine content the amount that should be paid for the contraband opium. The amount so determined would then be distributed pro-rata on the weight of the contraband opium supplied by each Province and the credit for the amount determined as payable to Assam shall be passed on through the Provincial Excise Account.(b)All Deputy Commissioners (except Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup) and the Political Officers of Nadiya, Balipara and Tirap Frontier Tracts should send all contraband opium of their respective districts to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup, in one lot on the 1st April and the 1st October each year. The Sub-divisional Officers should send the confiscated opium of their respective sub-divisions direct to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup,in the same manner, a report being sent to the Deputy Commissioner concerned. The entries of the quantity of contraband opium in the court Malkhana should be verified with those in the Excise office. Contraband opium should be re-weighed in the presence of a Magistrate whom the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-divisional Officer or the Political Officer may depute before despatch to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup. All consignments should be sent by registered parcel to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup. Should the quantity be too large for tire parcel post, any other method of transmission which appears proper to the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-Divisional Officer or the Political Officer, may be adopted.IV. - Miscellaneous
