1766 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1884 .
Opium.
Default in 14. If the consideration money for any farm created under this
payment for
farm , resale. Ordinance, or any instalment thereof, be not paid within one month next
[ 2 of 58 , s. 4. ]
after the day appointed for the payment thereof, the said farm shall
become and be absolutely null and void ; and , over and above all other
such liabilities as are hereinbefore or hereinafter created , the farmer shall
thereupon become and be liable to make good to the Government all losses
or expenses incurred by , or by reason of such default in payment or any
resale or regrant of such privilege which the Governor in Council may
thereupon make, and to make which he is hereby authorised ..
Sub-licences. 15. The opium farmer, if any, or in default of any such farmer , the
[ 2 of 58, 6. 3. ]
Governor in Council may at his discretion grant licences to proper
persons, authorising them to boil and prepare opium , and to sell and
retail opium so boiled and prepared ; but subject to such conditions as
shall from time to time be by the Governor in Council regulated and
previously notified in the Gazette. And the provisions of section 12 of
this Ordinance as to a scale of fines for breaches of regulations made
under this Ordinance shall apply equally to all breaches of regulations
made and notified as aforesaid with regard to such licences for the boiling
and preparation of opium .
Sales. 16. It shall be the duty of every person selling or retailing prepared
opium, not being dross opium, under this Ordinance , to deliver therewith
Certificate . a certificate in English and Chinese, stamped with the stamp used by him
[2 of 58, s. 7,
7 of 79, s. 3, in carrying on his business, specifying the amount so sold ; which certi
4 of 83, s. 1. ]
ficate shall be evidence of the facts therein stated , and shall not be trans
ferable, and shall be in one of the forms provided in schedules B or C to
this Ordinance , according as there is or is not, at the time of issuing such
certificate, an opium farmer under this Ordinance . Such certificates shall
be issued from books provided with counterfoils , and both the certificates
and the counterfoils shall bear corresponding and consecutive printed
numbers .
Expiry of 17. No certificate so granted by the opium farmer or by any licensee
certificate.
[ 7 of 79, s. 4, under him shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the
4 of 83, s. 3. ] expiration of such opium farmer's privilege.
Notice of 18. Every opium farmer shall, one month before his farm expires,
expiration of
farm . give public notice, in the form provided by the schedule D hereto, that
[ 1 of 79. s. 3. ]
the said farm is to expire on the day to be named , and that no boiled or
´prepared opium purchased from such farmer, or from any licensee of such