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Different excisable articles found in possession - Liability only if prescribed limit exceeded. - Where the limit prescribed is for each kind of excisable article separately, there is nothing to prevent the possession of each kind of article upto the limit prescribed, although if a person possess two or more such articles the total of all may exceed the prescribed limit of each. The possession of more than prescribed quantity of each article does not make up one offence. Each kind of excisable article must be considered separately, when different kinds of liquor are however seized together, it is undesirable that more than one punishment should be inflicted. A person cannot be convicted under Section 47(a), Bihar and Orissa Act when the weight of the packet of ganja along with the papers in which it is wrapped exceeds three tolas, as it is in such a case, impossible to know what the actual weight of the ganja is.