determining the number of houses to be appropriated to the retailing and smoking of Opium!
G.
And it is further declared and stated, that in all cases not above provided for, and where any penalty is imposed, that the said penalty shall in the first instance be levied by distress as before mentioned, and that if there be no sufficient distress, the offender shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six calendar months, and that the presiding magistrate or magistrates before whom any person shall be tried and convicted for any breach of the foregoing Regulations, or any of them, shall have in his or their discretion power to commute the amount of any of the aforesaid pecuniary penalties or shorten the respective periods of confinement herein before stated.
Passed the Executive Council of Hongkong this 8th day of February 1845.
Adolphus
Eller
Clerk of Councils
Governor,
etc. etc.
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