No. 255.
Rules made by the Governor-in-Council under Sub-sections (a) and (b) of Section 41 of the Optum Ordinance, 1909, on the 22nd day of July, 1912.
The Regulations for determining the quality of, and the packages and receptacles con- taining prepared and dross opium, and the quantities of such prepared and dross opium to be contained in such packages and receptacles, made by the Governor-in-Council on the 1st March, 1919, and published in the Government Gazette of the 4th March, 1910, in Notifica- tion No. 66, and at pages 589 and 590 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, as amended by the Governor-in-Council on the 22nd October, 1911, and published in the Government Gazette of the 27th October, 1911, as Notification No. 320, are hereby repealed, and the following Rules are substituted therefor :---
Rules for determining the Quality of Prepared Opium and Dross Opium to be sold by the Opium Farmer or Dross Farmer or their licensees and for determin- ing the Packages and Receptacles in which Prepared Opinm and Dross Opium shall be sold to the public and the Quantities to be contained therein.
1. Prepared Opium shall be sold only in the following qualities:
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1st Quality -Made from Bengal Opinm without any admixture, or made from Bengal Opium and tau-tseng-ko in the proportion of 1 ball of Bengal Opium to 1:25 taels of tau-tseng-ko.
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2nd Quality (a) Made from Bengal Opium and either tan-tseng-ko or opiam dross, in the proportion of 1 ball of Bengal Opium to 25 taels of tau- song-ko or 10 taels of opium dross, or (b) made from Bengal Opium and both tau-teeng-ko and opium dross in the proportion of 1 ball of Bengal Opium to 2:5 taels of tau-tseng-ko and 10 taels of opium dross. 3rd Quality
:--Made from a mixture composed of (i) Malwa, Persian or Chinese Opium, () tau-tseng-ko, and (2) opium dross, in the proportion of 10 taels of Malwa, Persian or Chinese Opium to 3 taels of tau-tseng-ko and 5 taels of opium dross.
2. No dross opium shall be sold unless prepared from a mixture containing not less than 40 per cent. of opium dross, not more than 30 per cent. of halaa, and not more than 30 per cent. of tau-tseng-ko.
3. The various qualities of prepared opium and dross opium shall be sold only in pack- ages containing the weights respectively appearing in the third column of the following table, and the prepared opium or dross opium, as the case may be, contained in any package, shall be deemed to be not of the quality required by these Rules if the contents of the package, after having been dried for twelve hours at a temperature of 100 degrees Centi- grade, weigh less than the weight appearing against the package in the fourth column of the following table :-
Prepared Opium.
Weight.
Lowest legal weight when dried.
No.
Quality,
Taels.
Taels.
1.
1st.
5.000
3.350
2.
2.000
1.340
3.
2nd.
1.000
·670
4.
·395
*2646
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5.
195
•1306
6.
·074
·04958
7.
·036
-0241
8.
3rd.
·040
*0268
9.
·050
10.
·025
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