8. All persons in charge of houses appropriated wholly or in part to the smoking of Opium or to the retail of the same in smaller quantities than one chest shall take out and hold a permit from the person duly licensed as aforesaid, and in default thereof shall be liable to the fines and punishments prescribed by section No. 1 of these Regulations. Provided always that the said licensed person 80 granting the said permit shall have regard to the power retained under the 2d section of these Regulations by the said Governor for determining the number of houses to be appropriated to the retailing or smoking of Opium.
9.--And it is further declared and ruled, that in all cases not above provided for, and where any penalty is imposed, the said penalty shall in the first instance be levied by distress as before mentioned, and that if there be no sufficient distress the offender shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding Six calendar months, and that the presiding Magistrate or Magistrates before whom any person shall be tried and convicted for any breach of the foregoing Regulations or any of them, shall have in his or their discretion power to commute the amount of any of the aforesaid pecuniary penalties, or to shorten the respective periods of imprison- ment herein before prescribed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 12th day of July, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
J. F. DAVIS,
Adolphus thetter Clerk of formsid
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