JHALLAWAR STATE MEMORANDUM. 179
JHALLAWAR STATE MEMORANDUM.
(1) There is no control
over the growth of the hemp plant, or (2) over the
manufacture,
importation and sale of any of its products. (3) There is an import
duty of 8 annas per
maund of 35 seers on all sorts of ganja and bhang and of one anna
per ditto on charas. There
are also local dues of 2 annas per maund on bhang and ganja, while
1 per cent is levied on
all sales of either drug, weighment dues also being levied when
they are sold by weight.
There is no system in
this State whatever for the control of hemp drugs. Wild hemp
is
found in very small quantities; a few stalks here and there
probably spring from cultivated
seed accidentally deposited. Anybody can import any hemp drug,
except into the cantonment,
where there is a licensed farmer; once the latter has paid for his
license he is free from all con-
trol. The extent of cultivation is about 30 acres and the produce
about 165 maunds of ganja
and 30 of bhang. The trade returns of the last four years do not
distinguish between ganja
and bhang; they show an average import of 105 maunds of both drugs
and an average export
of 120 maunds, while 10 maunds 25 seers paid local internal dues.
The average receipts have
been Rs. 65-8-6 per annum.
JHALRAPATAN; G. R. IRWIN,
The 2nd January 1894. Political Agent.