THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1891.
A.B. of
SCHEDULES.
(A.)
Appointment of Excise Officer.
THE OPIUM ORDINANCE 18
in
to be an excise officer under the above Ordinance, and is duly vested is hereby appointed with all the rights, powers, and immunities of such officer under the provisions of the said Ordinance, until
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or until this licence is revoked by the Governor of this Colony for the time being.
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Hongkong,
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+
(B.)
Colonial Secretary.
No.
Opium Certificate, if there is no Opium Farm.
Not Transferable. To be returned after the opium is used. Sold this day to
of No.
candareens of prepared
Street,
Taels, opium for his own use.
Hongkong,
mace,
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NOTICE. The Governor in Council has granted the exclusive pri- vilege of preparing, and selling prepared opium within the Colony
to
from
The opium now purchased and sold cannot legally be used or retained in your possession after noon of the third day from the above date, without the consent of
(C.)
(Signed),
Public Notice of Expiry of Farm.
The exclusive privilege of preparing opium and selling and retailing opium so prepared will cease on
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No prepared opium purchased at noon, without the consent of the new holder of such exclusive privilege as aforesvid.
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(Signed),
No. 22 of 1891.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, to amend Ordinance No. 22 of 1887.
LS
G. DIGBY BARKER,
Officer Administering the Government.
[13th November, 1891.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Raw Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1891, and shall be read and construed together with Ordinance No. 22 of 1887, as hereby amended, and hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Section 1 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be substituted in lieu thereof:-
"This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Raw Opium Ordinance, 1887.”
3. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out the words "of opium " after the word "chest," and by inserting after the definition of
chest," the following definitions :-
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· Opium Farmer.-The holder for the time being of the exclusive privilege of preparing and selling prepared opium either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium."
"Loose Opium-shall mean all raw opium found or discovered otherwise than in a chest full of one quality of raw opium,"
and in the definition of Ship by striking out the words "and in the principal Ordinance."
4. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following section and mar- ginal note are hereby substituted.
..Import of Tinose opii prohibited."
3. No person shall bring into the Colony, or the waters thereof or receive therein any loose opium."
Title.
Preamble.
Short title.
Repeal of sec.
1 of 22 of 1887.
Amendment
of sec. 2 of 22 of 1887.
Repeal of sec.
3 of 22 of 1887.