ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1884.
Opium.
to be ascertained either by public auction or by tender, to be made in pursuance of notice to be published in the Gazette to that effect; but every such bidder shall, before he is declared the purchaser of the privilege, give bond with sureties in the sum of twenty thousand current dollars at least, to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, for the due performance of the conditions of the privilege, and of his stipulations in respect thereof.
1765 opium divans and dross.
10. The Governor in Council may farm out the privilege of keeping divans for the smoking of opium to one or more than one person, on such terms and conditions as may seem to the Governor in Council expedient, and the grantee or grantees shall be empowered to grant licences to separate keepers of such divans. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as to the division of such opium divans into classes as may seem to him expedient, and in the event of there being no farmer of any class, the Colonial Secretary may grant licences and revoke the same on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.
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11. The Governor in Council may in like manner farm out the privilege of collecting, dealing in, and preparing dross opium; and in the event of there being no farmer, the Colonial Secretary may grant licences to prepare and deal in dross opium and may revoke the same on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.
Dross opium.
Fines under farm system.
12. The Governor in Council may make, and when made, revoke, add to, or alter a scale of fines to be levied for breaches of the regulations [2 of 58, 6. 12.] under which any farm is created under this Ordinance. Every fine provided by such scale of fines shall be levied in the same manner as the fines imposed by this Ordinance.
13. All the provisions of this Ordinance as to searches, arrests, possession, the seizure and disposal of opium, utensils, vessels, or implements used for preparing or smoking the same, and the disposal thereof, penalties and their division, rewards to informers, and penalties for false charges or irregular proceedings under this Ordinance, shall apply, so far as circumstances will permit, in relation to all cases of any offence against this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder with respect to opium smoking divans, or to the preparation of or dealing in dross opium.
Protection of divan and dross farmers.