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Show HAVE AUTHORITY TO DESTROY OPIUM WAdHlN'OTON, Jan. A collector of ouatom may seise, forfeit and destroy without Judicial proceedings sny smoking smok-ing opium confiscated In the United States, according to sn opinion rendered By Attorney General Wlcksrshsm to fcao. retary of the Treasury MacVasgh. Tha attorney general held that the Taw prohibiting pro-hibiting tlie Importing of smoking opium was not a customs act and consequently endowed collectors of custom wILh widespread wide-spread powers for the tmmedlate destruction destruc-tion of the dm" without recourse to the courts. Treasury officials regard tha da-dslon da-dslon as having an Important bearing oa Um policy of. suppressing avium traMc- |