1884 with certain amendments.
3.
It deals with the
existent in this
Opium Farm, long
Colony,
and from which the Colony
will
has derived and still derived a
large portion of its revenue.
inf.
In reporting
or
the
present Ordinance, & propose only draw attention to the material
alterations in the law which have
been made.
In section 2 Implement,
opium, prepared opium, possession,
preparation are
newly defiired.
In section 8, bribery by excise officers is made punish-
able
by fine or imprisonment, and the non-retorn of their accoupe- ceasing to be fexcise
Officers
ments etc on
3
72
Officers is also made punishable
with a
five in a similar manner to that in which Police Officers are
punishable for not giving up their accoutrements etc, under the Police
Consolidation Rrdinance.
3
In section 9, sub-section
an alteration has been effected.
It is a reproduction of the latter part of Ordinance te 1 of 1884 Sect. 2 which provided that no person
should have dross opium, i. e. the
opium
Ox
refuse of smoking, in his possession not the result of his own smoking
smoking on his own premises.
Opium dross or refuse opium is
a valuable commodity and
may ?
be reproduced as dross opium
arrd
utilized to the Farmers loss.
The