APPENDIX  F  435
Any  person  violating  the  rule  will  forfeit  his  land,  and  any
person  ceasing  to  grow  the  poppy  and  adopting  some  other  crop
before  the  time  required  in  the  decree  shall  be  considered  as
meriting  special  reward.
Article  II.  The  issuing  of  certificates  will  prevent  the
possibility  of  new  smokers.  The  bad  habit  of  opium  smoking
has  now  been  indulged  in  for  such  a  long  time.  About  three  or
four  tenths  of  the  natives  smoke  opium.  Therefore  we  must
be  lenient  to  those  who  have  already  acquired  the  habit,  but
must  be  strict  for  the  future.  First  of  all,  all  the  officials  and
gentry  and  licentiates  shall  be  prohibited  to  smoke  opium,  so  as
to  show  examples  to  the  common  people.  Those  who  smoke
opium,  without  distinction,  whether  he  be  an  official,  one  of  the
gentry,  or  a  servant,  shall  report  the  fact  at  the  local  yâmen.
If  the  place  of  their  living  is  remote  from  the  local  yâmen,  they
may  report  themselves  to  the  police  bureau  or  to  the  gentry
of  that  place,  who  will  collect  such  applications  and  send  the
same  to  the  local  yâmen.  The  local  officials  then  will  issue  a
proclamation  ordering  them  to  fill  up  a  form  with  their  names,
age,  residence,  profession,  and  the  amount  of  opium  each  smokes
per  day  ;  such  forms  will  be  ordered  to  be  sent  in  at  a  fixed  date
according  to  the  distance  of  the  residence  from  the  yâmen.
After  the  forms  have  been  collected  at  the  yâmen  a  list  will  be
compiled,  and  one  copy  of  the  same  will  be  handed  over  to  the
higher  yâmen,  and  certificates  will  be  issued  under  the  official
seal.  Such  certificates  will  be  of  two  kinds  :  one  for  those  who
are  over  sixty  years  of  age  and  another  for  those  who  are  under
sixty  years  of  age.  Those  who  receive  the  second  kind  of  certificate ­
  are  not  allowed  to  receive  the  certificate  of  the  first  kind
when  they  reach  sixty.  In  the  certificate  the  name,  age,  native
address,  amount  of  daily  consumption  of  opium,  as  well  as  the
date  of  the  issue  of  the  certificate,  are  mentioned  to  certify  that
they  are  allowed  to  buy  opium.  If  there  are  any  who,  having
no  certificate,  buy  opium  secretly,  such  persons  will  be  duly
punished.  Once  a  registration  has  been  made  and  certificate
been  issued  no  future  application  will  be  allowed.
Article  III.  By  ordering  gradual  reduction  of  the  amount
of  smoking  opium,  a  cure  of  such  habit  may  be  effected.  Those
who  are  over  sixty  years  old  are  treated  leniently  because  of
their  age,  but  those  who  are  below  sixty  and  have  received  a
certificate  of  second  kind  are  ordered  to  reduce  the  amount  of
smoking  annually  either  by  two-tenths  or  three-tenths,  and  to
determine  the  date  of  ceasing  to  smoke  opium.  Those  who
cease  to  smoke  and  obtain  the  guarantee  of  their  neighbours
will  be  presented  to  the  local  officials,  who  will  also  inquire  into
the  case,  and  then  the  name  will  be  erased  from  the  book  of