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THE HONGKONG
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No. 21.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH MAY, 1882. 日六廿月三年午壬 日三十月五年二十八百八千一
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 221.
VOL. XXVIII.
簿八十二第
The following Supplementary Conditions are published under Section 3 of Ordinance 2 of 1858.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1882.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
SUPPLEMENTARY CONDITIONS, MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL, TO WHICH LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THE EXCISE ORDINANCES (OPIUM), 1858-1879, ARE TO BE SUBJECT.
1. Each Licence shall specify the name of the Licensee and the shop or house where the business is to be carried on, specifying the name of the street and street-number of the house.
2. The term for which each Licence shall be granted, and the amount of consideration money to be paid therefore, shall be fixed from time to time by the Holder of the Opium Grant, provided always that no increase in the amount of the consideration money to be paid shall take effect until one month's previous notice of such increase shall have been given to the Licensee.
3. The consideration money shall be paid in monthly instalments in advance, and there shall be paid, in addition to the first monthly payment, by every Licensee upon his Licence being granted, a further sum equal to one monthly payment as a deposit on account of the consideration money, and the deposit shall go in payment of the last monthly payment of the said term.
4. Every monthly payment must be paid on the first lawful day of each month, and in default of any such payment the Holder of the Opium Grant shall be entitled to withdraw the Licence, to retain all moneys paid thereunder, and the Licensee shall make good all losses and expenses incurred by reason of such default.
5. The Licence shall be for the sale of Patna Opium in this Colony, and in the shop or house so licensed. No Licensee shall have separate stores either for storing or selling Opium, but the whole business shall be carried out in the shop or house so licensed.
6. No Licence shall be transferrible.
7. All Opium to be sold by the Licensee shall be prepared at the premises of the Holder of the Opium Grant. Every ball, or any quantity less than one ball, so to be prepared, shall be calculated at the rate of 48 taels per ball, and every such Licensee shall pay to the Holder of the Opium Grant, in addition to the monthly payments for his Licence, a fee to be fixed by the Holder of the Opium Grant for every ball so to be prepared besides all expenses of preparation. Each ball shall produce between 20 and 30 taels' weight of prepared Opium.