of his house, and every Smoking Shop shall also be provided with suitable accommoda- tion for the use of the customers, in order to prevent nuisances or offences to decency: And such Smoking Shop shall adjoin the street, and may be open from Gunfire in the morning, until Ten o'clock at night, during each day; and all such houses shall not be kept open, nor shall any Opium be sold or smoked therein, between the hours of Ten o'clock at night and Gunfire in the morning.
IX. Keepers of Licensed Opium Shops shall not sell or dispose of Opium except
for money.
X. No person shall be admitted into any Opium Smoking Shop with any kind
of arms or weapon.
XI. If any person or persons are found riotous or quarrelsome in any such Opium Smoking Shop, the keeper thereof shall apply to à Police Officer and shall cause such person or persons to be apprehended or taken into custody, to be dealt with as the law directs.
XII. Every person shall be at liberty to go into any house in the island of Hong- kong, and on board any ship or vessel at anchor in any harbour within the said island of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or in the waters thereof, for the purpose of search- ing for Opium illicitly prepared or retailed contrary to the provisions of these Regula- tions, on obtaining a Search Warrant from any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, to be issued in the usual way, on reasonable cause being shewn that to the best of such person's knowledge and belief such Opium is being prepared or retailed in such house or on board such vessel for consumption.
XIII. No person not being duly. Licensed shall, within the said Island of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, or the waters thereof, sell Tye, Chandoo, or Opium Dross, mixed with Opium.
XIV. Every License shall be paid for monthly in advance, and every person who shall not have paid his advance when due, shall be considered as acting without a License, and as subject to the Penalties imposed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1845.
XV. Every person Licensed to sell Raw Opium, to refine, prepare, and sell Pre- pared Opium, or to keep an Opium Smoking Shop, shall and is hereby required to make quarterly a report to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the quantity of Opiwn which shall have been sold, prepared, or smoked in his shop.
XVI. And it is further declared and ruled, that for the breach of any of the foregoing regulations the offenders shall be liable to the penalty imposed by Section 4 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1845.
XVII. The Rules and Regulations made on the 12th day of July, 1845, are hereby declared to be null and void.
SCHEDULE OF LICENSE DUTIES.
For Retailing Raw Opium,
For Refining, Preparing, and Selling Prepared Opium,... For keeping an Opium Smoking Shop,...
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 19th day of July, 1847.
L. D'ALMADA E ĈASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
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