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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST DECEMBER, 1878.
going holder of the exclusive privilege as to the Governor may seem reasonable, and any award made may be filed in Court pursuant to the provisions of "The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure."
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V. Scction VIII of the said recited Ordinance shall be amended as follows:-After the word "any" in the third line of the said section the word "boiled or" and after the word "opium" in the fourth line thereof the words "not purchased from the holder of the existing privilege for the time being or his licensee the burthen "of proof of which purchase shall lie upon any person alleging that "he so purchased the same. Provided always that no person "who may have purchased any boiled or prepared opium from the "outgoing holder of the exclusive privilege or from
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licensee of "such outgoing holder shall be liable to be convicted for having "in his possession such boiled or prepared opium not exceeding "three taels weight at any time before noon on the third day after "the commencement of the new holder's privilege."
VI. All boiled or prepared opium offered or exposed for sale or retail by any unauthorised person and all boiled or prepared opium found in the possession or custody or control of any unauthorised person or in any unauthorised place, except as in the last section mentioned, and any utensils or vessels which have been used or which are manifestly intended to be used in boiling or preparing opium by any unauthorised person or in any unau thorised place, may be seized by a Police or Revenue Officer, and shall be forfeited and may be by a Magistrate delivered and adjudged to the holder of the exclusive privilege for the time being, and any unauthorised person in whose possession any such boiled or prepared opium or utensils or vessels are found may be apprehended and taken before a Magistrate by any Police or Revenue Officer.
VII. Whenever boiled or prepared Opium is so seized as last aforesaid and any such utensils or vessels are also seized as afore- said, the Police or Revenue Officer seizing the same may also seize any raw opium that may be found in the custody or control of such unauthorised person or in such unauthorised place and such raw opium shall be subject to the order of the Magis- trate before whom the case is brought.
VIII. Whenever from any other cause there is reasonable ground to believe that boiled or prepared opium is manufactured at any place within this Colony it shall be lawful for a Police or Revenue Officer to seize any raw opium found in such place.
IX. Any Justice of the Peace may issue a Search Warrant under section IX of the said recited Ordinance, and the person executing any such Search Warrant may seize and hold any utensils or vessels which have been used or which are manifestly intended to be used in boiling or preparing opium and in any case where boiled or prepared opium is found under the circum- stances mentioned in the said section of the said recited Ordinance or any such utensils or vessels as last aforesaid are found, may also seize any raw opium found in the possession of any person having such boiled or prepared opium utensils or in any such tenement, place, or vessel as is mentioned in the said section.
X. All Police Officers shall have the powers and authority of a Revenue Officer under this Ordinance, and the Governor may grant his Warrant in form of schedule ( ) to such agents or servants of the holder of the exclusive privilege for the time being as may be approved of by him to act as Revenue Officers: and no person except those so appointed and except Police Officers shall be competent to act as Revenue Officer under this and the said recited Ordinance. Such Warrants may at any time be withdrawn by the Governor and any person other than a Police Officer assuming to act as a Revenue Officer under this Ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
XI. The names and places of residence of every Revenue Offi- cer so appointed as aforesaid shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the Police Court.
XII. Every Revenue Officer appointed under this Ordinance shall be supplied at the expense of the holder of the exclusive privilege for the time being with a badge bearing such sign or mark of office as may be directed by the Governor and before acting against any person under the provisions of this Ordinance every such Revenue Officer shall declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is about to act his said badge. Every Police Officer acting under the provision of this or the said recited Ordinance, if not in the uniform proper to his service shall in like manuer declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is about to act such part of his public equipment as the Captain Superintendent of Police shall have directed or may direct to be carried by Police Officers when employed on secret or special service.