1774 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1884.
Opium.
Additional condition made by the Governor in Council under the provisions of the
Opium Ordinance 1884 on the 26th and gazetted 28th June, 1884.
From the 24th June 1884, the fees on the preparation of opium for export, in
quantities of not less than 500 taels, are reduced to the rate of forty-five dollars for
every 1,000 taels of prepared opium exported .
Form of grant of opium privilege, as regulated and determined in pursuance of
Ordinance No. 1 of 1884, section 9, on the 7th March 1885,
TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come, I, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN,
G.C.M.G. , Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in Executive Council assembled,
Send Greeting :
WHEREAS (here insert recitals according to the facts of each case) . KNOW YE
THEREFORE, that in consideration of the premises, and of the payment by the said
of the sum of payable in
instalments of each on the first day of each month, in advance
during the term hereby granted , and in pursuance of the said Ordinance, and such con
ditions as are regulated and determined, or may be regulated and determined as pro
vided by the said Ordinance, I, the said Governor, by and with the advice of the said
Executive Council, have given and granted, and by these presents under the seal of •
the said Colony for myself, and my successors in the Government of the same, Do give
and grant unto the said his executors, administrators, and
assigns, the sole privilege of boiling and preparing opium (inclusive or exclusive of
dross opium, as the case may be) and of selling and retailing within the said Colony,
and the waters thereof, opium so boiled or prepared for and during the term herein
after expressed, in conformity with and subject to the said Ordinance in that behalf
provided, and to the said conditions, and to these presents , and so as that he the said
his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and
lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage, from
time to time, during the said term coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by reason
of the said privilege . To have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy the premises hereby
granted, with the power to grant licences, and all other powers incident to the said
privilege, and all benefit and advantage of the said Ordinance and conditions, or any of
them unto the said for and during and unto the full end
and term of whole year commencing with the day of
one thousand eight hundred and " and ending with
the day of one thousand eight hundred and
PROVIDED ALWAYS, and these presents are upon this express condition , that if at any
time during the said term hereby granted the said his executors ,