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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Penalty for

contra- vention.

Search warrant.

Seizure of

prepared opium or opium.

Procedure.

Protection

of officers

from

actione.

Attempt.

Cultivation of opium poppy forbidden.

Governor in Execu- tive Coun- cil may

make

rules.

Recovery.

Repeal.

Short title

and date of

coming

any of the preceding articles 8. Any person contravening the provisions of shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing one thousand rupees and to imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, and the Magistrate may order any prepared opium, or opium unlawfully imported or with- drawn from the store, to be forfeited to Government.

9. It shall be lawful for a Magistrate, if satisfied by information on oath that any opium or prepared opium is being unlawfully kept, conveyed, landed or sold in contravention of this Ordinance at any place, whether a building or not, or in any ship not being or having the status of a ship of war, or vehicle, to grant a warrant to enter at any time, and if needs be by force, on Sundays as well as on any other days, the place, ship or vehicle named in such warrant, and every part thereof, and to examine the same, and to search for any opium or prepared opium unlawfully kept therein, and to demand from the owner or occupier thereof the production of the authority for being in possession of the same.

10. When the officer or other person executing such warrant has reasonable cause to believe that any prepared opium or opium found by him in any such place, ship or vehicle, is being kept, conveyed, landed or sold in contravention of this Ordi- nance, he may seize and detain the same until the Magistrate has decided whether the same is liable to be forfeited or not.

Proceedings in a Magistrate's Court shall be commenced as soon as possible after the seizure.

11. Any person acting under the afore-mentioned warrant shall not be liable to any suit for seizing or detaining any prepared opium or opium.

12.

Whoever attempts to commit any offence against this Ordinance may be dealt with in the same way, and shall be liable in the same penalty, as if he were charged with the actual offence.

13. It shall not be lawful for any person to cultivate opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), and any person contravening the same shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one thousand rupees and to imprisonment not exceeding twelve months.

14. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council to make such Rules as he may consider expedient for the regulation of the importation, landing, withdrawal, or conveyance of any opium imported into this Colony, and for storage, regulating or prohibiting the export of opium to other countries, and any person *contravening the same shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable for every offence to a penalty not exceeding fifty rupees and to imprisonment not exceeding one month.

15. All penalties incurred under this Ordinance may be recovered before a Magistrate, for which purpose every Magistrate shall have jurisdiction to the extent of the said penalties.

16. The following enactments are repealed

Ordinance No. 2 of 1867.

:-

Ordinance No. 6 of 1878, Article 2, paragraph (r.), and Schedule A, as

amended by Ordinance No. 41 of 1903, Item 101 (g).

Ordinance No. 17 of 1904.

Ordinance No. 14 of 1908, Schedule B, Item 88, in so far as it relates to

prepared opium.

17. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Opium Ordinance, 1913," and shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

8749

(No. 11.)

No. 152.

ST. HELENA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 15th March, 1913.)

[Answered by No. 160.]

SIR,

The Castle, St. Helena, 4th February, 1913. REFERRING to your despatch, No. 45, of 19th October last,* and in compliance with the instructions therein contained, I have the honour to transmit herewith, for the signification of His Majesty's approval, Ordinancet No. 1 of 1913, giving effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, regulating the importation into and disposal of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs into the island of St. Helena.

I have, &c.,

9384

H. E. S. CORDEAUX,

No. 153.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

MALAY STATES.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 22nd March, 1913.)

(No. 98.)

[Copy of enclosures to Foreign Office, 6th June, 1913. L.F.]

SIR,

Government House, Singapore, 25th February, 1913. WITH reference to your circular despatch dated the 16th May, 1912, and in continuation of my, despatch, No. 474, dated the 2nd October, 1912, § I have the honour to transmit a comparative return "The Opium and Chandu Enactment, 1910,

of chandu sold in the Federated Malay Amendment Enactment, 1912."†

States by Government during the_years 1911 and 1912, and copies of an Enact- ment and certain Rules, &c., passed in 1912 relating to opium, as noted in the margin. I have, &c.,

ARTHUR YOUNG.

New Rules under "The Opium and Chandu Enactment, 1910."†

Certain Forms prescribed under the Enact- ment.t

Rules giving the maximum prices at which chandu may be sold by a licence-holder.

into force.

• No. 119.

Not reprinted.

+ No. 18,

§ No. 122.

H

83541

Enclosure 1 in No. 153.

COMPARATIVE RETURN OF CHANDU SOLD IN THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES BY GOVERNMENT DURING the Years 1911 AND 1912.

114

Commissioner, Trade and Customs, W. J. P. HUME,

Federated Malay States.

Perak.

Selangor.

Negri Sembilan.

Pahang.

Total.

Increase.

Decrease.

Period.

1911.

1912.

*1161

1912,

1911.

1912.

1911.

1913.

*1161

1912.

Tabila.

Tahils.

Tahils.

Tabilo.

Tabila.

Tahi's.

Tahils.

Tabils.

Tahila,

Tabib.

Tahils.

Tabile.

...

...

81,648.36

98,013.19

84.679.03

93,416.98

110,090.83

104,459.12

86,137.10

102,245.38 100,242,24

102,948.00

105.381.00 98,768.88

63,314.59 60,956.52

66,295.36

78,430.50

24,048.82

24,818.86

58,948.00

62,100.50

70,644.00*

24,159.90

25,680.20 26.006.90

24,535.50

73,090.20

23,326.85

24,271.50)

8,918:56

9.476.43

8,657.02

10,577.84

9,605.35

12,158.62

70,101.00

68,493.00

29,127.84

25,519.50

11,078.43

73,095.00

55,615.50

26,755.46

19,959,00

12,384.65

11,196.24

12.844.85

10,305.70

9,870,95

177,930.33 193,265.00

176,143.95 189,422.17

220,398.10

188,018.01 218.841.60

206,617.98 213,154.55 209,699.20

10,087.68

25,576,60

30,174,03

23,732.38

10,698,90

216,694.23

184,214.33

...

99,793.00

05*260*96

61,613.50

62,295.00

23,468.00

23,932.50

12,684.41

12,157.29

197,558.91

194,482.29

98,955.51

95,796.00

71,513.12

62,019.00

27,054.30

22,486.50

11,316.91 | 10,727.00

208,839.84

191,028.50

102,496.50

108,610.20 105,974,30 127,992.10

98,764.80 102,450.00

103,822.50

119,847.00

71.707.10

60,208.50

23,011.70

21,012.10

10,644 25 12,373.16

207,859.55

196,043.66

32 479.90

3,076.62

11,815.89

17,811.34

00*99*29

71,385.00

67,455,50

Total

... 1,216,129.12 1,212,800,60

66,352.50

76,437.00

804,807.13 | 811,265.56 76,536.30

24,451.30

26,387.80

24,541,80

301,152.63

26,298,00

11,764.05

12,544.65

212,291.55

208,992.45

20,731.50

11,310.50 |

12,537.22

211.128.20

203,443.72

23,950,50

12,558.96

14,270 29

241,624.16

234,504.79

284,363.60 | 131,367,11 | 140,591.32 | 2,453,455,99 2,449,041.08 |

• Nor-This figure includes tahils 2,518,50 of chandu sold; omitted by Superintendent, Chandu Monopoly, Kuala Lumpur, in March account and not included in the previous returns,

3,299.10

7,684.48

7,119.37

89,570.69

93,985.60

1:

31st January, 1913.

Kuala Lumpur,