17. Every person who shall under the provisions of this Ordinance make any application, or supply any Particulars, Return, or Account, or other written Statement required by this Ordinance to be made or supplied, shall sign the same himself, unless he be absent from the Colony or unable, from sickness, to attend to business, in which case, the same may be signed by his Agents for him; and if any such application, particulars, Return, Account, or other Statement shall be false or incorrect, either in whole, or in part, to the knowledge of the person so making or supplying the same, whether the same be signed by himself or by his Agents, such person shall, in every case not otherwise provided for by this Ordinance, be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding One Thousand Dollars for the first offence, and Two Thousand for every subsequent offence: and such Agent shall also, and in like manner, if offending, be liable to penalties of the like amount.
13. Any Justice of the Peace may, by his warrant, directed to any Police Officer, not under the rank of a Sergeant, empower him by day or by night to enter and search any dwelling house, shop, or other building or place, or any ship not being a man-of-war or ship having such status lying or being within the waters of the Colony, in any case in which it shall appear to such Justice of the Peace, upon the oath of any person that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that in any such dwelling house, shop, or other building or place, or on board any such ship is concealed or deposited any Opium subject to forfeiture under this Ordinance, or as to which an offence has been committed against any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and to take possession of any such Opium found to be concealed, or deposited therein, and of the ship in which the same may be found, and to arrest and take any person, or persons being in such dwelling house, shop, or other building, or place, or on board any such ship, in whose possession, custody, or control, any such Opium may be found, or whom the said officer may have good and sufficient reason to suspect to have concealed or deposited therein or thereabouts any such Opium, and any Officer to whom such warrant shall be directed, may, in case of obstruction or resistance, break open any outer or inner doors of such dwelling house, shop, or other building, or place, and enter thereinto, and forcibly enter such ship, and every part thereof, and remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure, and removal as aforesaid, and may detain every person found in such place until the said place shall have been searched, and all informations to be laid and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be made under this Ordinance, may be had or done on a Sunday, as well as on any other day.
19. Excise Officers duly appointed under the principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be Excise Officers for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall have the like powers, duties, rights, and liabilities with reference to Opium under this Ordinance as they have with reference to prepared Opium under the principal Ordinance.
20. It shall be lawful for any Police or Excise Officer to arrest without warrant any person within the Colony whom he reasonably suspects to be conveying or to have concealed on his person any Opium in contravention of the requirements of this Ordinance and to take him before a Police Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
21. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Police or an Excise Officer having reasonable ground for believing that there is Opium in any ship within the waters of the Colony in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance (such ship not being a ship of war or vessel having such status) to proceed without warrant on board such ship, and search for such Opium and seize any so found; and it shall be lawful for such Inspector to take the Opium so found together with the person in whose custody, possession, or control it is found before a Police Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
Penalty for giving false particulars.
Search Warrant may be issued by Justice of the Peace.
When granted on oath that there is good cause.
Officer may take possession of Opium found.
Power to break open doors.
May detain persons.
Sundays.
Excise Officers' appointment.
Arrest without warrant.
Searching ships.
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