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Externment of habitual smugglers.-Whenever a District Magistrate or a Subdivisional Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the [State]* Government in this behalf receives information that any person within the limits of his jurisdiction is by habit a smuggler of opium [or a seller or stockist of opium]t such Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require such person to show cause why he should not be externed from the [State]** or from any part thereof for such period as the Magistrate may deem fit.