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Retail rates.
12. The prescribed retail prices at which licensed retail
vendors are bound to sell the drugs to the public are:—
As.
Ganja per seer of 24 tolas
13
Majum or any other preparation, except halva, per seer of 24 tolas
6
The rates of profit allowed to them by the Darbar are therefore 3 annas per seer of ganja
and 2 annas per seer of majum.
License fees.
13. No license fees are levied for the retail vend of the drugs except in the cities of
Bangalore and Mysore, where a fee of Rs. 3 per mensem is
charged for each license.
Restrictions to retail vend.
14. The licensed retail vendor shall not sell more than 4 tolas weight of the drugs to any
person during any one day. He shall not permit disorderly
behaviour in his shop or premises, suffer any gambling
whatever therein, knowingly permit prostitutes or persons of
bad character to meet therein, or permit any person to take the drugs in any such quantity as
to produce stupefaction or to consume the same in the shop or premises, or knowingly sell the
same to persons keeping ganja-khanas, where people resort to smoke or partake of the drugs.
He shall be bound to give information of suspicious characters to the Magistrate or Police
officer.
Direction and control of the adminis-
tration of ganja revenue.
15. The direction and control of the administration of ganja revenue, as well as other
items of excise revenue, vest in the Excise Commissioner,
the principal executive authorities being the Deputy Com-
missioners of districts.
The Act and Rules in force.
16. The Excise laws under which the ganja revenue is administered throughout the pro-
vince under one uniform system described in paragraph 4
above are the Imperial Excise Act XXII of 1881 as amended
by Act VI of 1885, and as extended to this State by Regulation III of 1885 and the rules
framed thereunder.
Storing of drug, transport, and su-
pervision.
17. The drug is imported by the contractor on duly signed passes, and, on its arrival at
Bangalore, it is duly weighed and checked with the entries
in the passes by the Government supervisor in charge of the
provincial depôt. The drug is then stored in the provincial depôt. The requisite supplies of
the drug are on written application issued to the wholesale shops under the contractor with
transport passes duly signed and sealed by the supervisor in charge of the provincial depôt.
On arrival of the consignments at the places of destination, the local taluk officials duly check
them and make them over to the wholesale vendors concerned, who at once duly book the con-
signments in the prescribed registers furnished by the Darbar. The wholesale shops are from
time to time inspected and the sales therein checked and verified by the inspecting officers of
the department. The sales in retail shops are likewise checked and verified by the said
officers.
Mode of collection of duty and pre-
cautions against evasion.
18. The duty is collected in the following manner:—
(1) The minimum amount guaranteed by the contractor is payable to the Darbar in
12 equal monthly instalments on or before the 20th of each month.
(2) The contractor shall pay into the local treasuries of the State duty on wholesale
sales of the drugs at the prescribed rates. If the total amount of the duty
accruing on the wholesale sales be not sufficient in any month to make up the in-
stalment of the guaranteed amount for that month, the contractor shall pay such
further amount as may be required to make up the deficiency. On the other
hand, if the said duty exceed the said instalment, the excess shall be available to
make up the deficiency in any other month of the same official year, this defici-
ency being adjusted by short payments into the treasury when the instalment for
the month is tendered to the extent of such net excess sales as may be available
when such instalment fell due. If the total amount of duty due on the whole-
sale sales for any year of the contract period exceed the guaranteed amount for
that year, the contractor shall not be entitled to the benefit of such excess.
(3) To secure the duty leviable on the drugs imported and consumed the following
precautions are adopted:—
(a) No one shall be permitted to import or sell the drugs by wholesale except the
licensed contractor.
(b) Any person found in possession of more than 5 tolas of the drugs shall be liable
to prosecution.
(c) No person except licensed vendors shall sell the drugs in any form whatever.
(d) No one except the licensed contractor shall purchase the drugs from any one
permitted to cultivate the hemp.
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