Sub. Enclosure I to Enclosure 4.
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Appendix D. of M. Russell's Opium Convention and Conditions
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A BILL
ENTITLED
1st Reading, 18th March, 1887.
2nd Reading,
Committee,
3rd Reading.
An Ordinance for the better regulating of the trade in Opium.
and
movement of Raw Opium within the Colony and the waters thereof: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance and the Opium Ordinance of 1884, hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, shall be construed together as one Ordinance to be called The Opium Ordinances 1884 and 1887.
2. Opium in this Ordinance means raw, crude, or unprepared Opium.
Chest of Opium means the package, with the opium therein, such as is usually imported by merchants in the Colony.
Ship in this Ordinance and in the principal Ordinance shall be construed so as to include any steam vessel, junk, boat, sampan, or any kind of craft used for conveyance of persons or things by water.
3. No person shall bring into the Colony or the waters thereof or receive therein Opium in quantities less than one chest so brought into the Colony or its waters.
4. It shall be lawful for the Raw Opium-Farmer, on such terms as may be approved by the Governor in Council, to grant licences for the sale of Opium intended for export in quantities less than one chest, and no person except the Raw Opium Farmer or his licensee shall be permitted to sell, or barter, within the Colony or its waters Opium in quantities less than one chest. The purchase, sale, or barter of quantities less than one ball or oke is hereby forbidden.
5. It shall be the duty of the Raw Opium Farmer and his licensee to grant to persons purchasing Opium in quantities less than one chest a certificate in the following form :-
No,
Date
(Bengal or Malwa)
Sold this day to
Ball or Catties (Malwa) or
to be exported by him to
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This Certificate shall not be valid after noon of the day of the above date without the consent of the Raw Opium Farmer.
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6. No person except the Raw Opium Farmer or his licensee shall have in his possession or under his custody or control Opium in quantities less than one chest unless he can shew to the satisfaction of a Magistrate
(a.) that he purchased the said Opium from the Raw Opium Farmer or one of his licensees, and
(b) that the said Opium is intended for export:
provided however that the production of a certificate of sale from the Raw Opium Farmer or licensee and a valid duty receipt from the Chinese Customs Authorities will be good and sufficient evidence that the Opium was sold by them and that it is covered by a contract for export. Provided always that it shall be in the discretion of the officer charged with enforcing this Ordinance to grant or withhold the permit.
7. It shall be the duty of the Raw Opium Farmer and the licensees to keep a Register of the Particulars of purchase and sale in such form as the Governor may from time to time order.
these sections 3,4,5,6,7.
are taken in appendix A - draft bill in W. Kuval's report on Opium Convention
Register of Particulars
of the officer Charged with enforcing Export permits to grant or withhold the same and that the Section
Mall nitaphalg Samples treating two card cover & the certificate of the)
suporter.