CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 310

!

!

307

By His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Executive Council thereof:-

OPIUM PRIVILEGE REGULATIONS,

Made in Pursuance of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858.

1. The Bond to be given under Section Two of the said Ordinance shall be in such form as is approved by the Governor in Council.

2. The Yearly amount payable by way of Consideration-Money for the Privilege mentioned in the same Section shall be payable in current Dollars, in equal and Monthly instalments at the Treasury; and every instalment shall be due and payable One Month in advance, the first instalment to be payable on the 31st day of March, 1858.

3. In case of the Non-payment of any one of the said instalments upon the day when the same hath become due and payable as aforesaid, the Colonial Treasurer shall on the next following day certify under his band to the Colonial Secretary to that effect, which Certificate shall have the force and effect of lawful evidence of the said fact; and thereupon the Person making the supposed default in payment of the said instalment shall, unless he can show by counterproof that no such default was in fact made, be deemed to be a Person not duly qualified under Section Two aforesaid.

4. Every Person selling prepared Opium under the said Ordinance, must paint or cause to be painted, in letters at least three inches long, on some conspicuous part of his House, and so as that the same may be constantly and permanently remain- ing there, and plainly to be seen and read there, his own Name, with the words " Licensed to sell prepared 'Opium" superadded

thereto.

5. Every such Person shall be liable to pay the Consideration-Money for his License to the Person granting the same by Monthly payments, each being One Month in advance; and if any such payment shall be in arrear One Day after the same hath become due, the Person so in default shall be deemed to be a Person not duly qualified under Section Three of the said

Ordinance.

thereof.

6. No Privilege or License granted under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be infringed merely by reason of the preparing of Samples of Opium, by any wholesale sellers or buyers-not being Chinese-of the Opium to which such samples belong, bona fide for the purpose of testing or examining the quality of the Raw Opium, with a view to the sale or purchase

7. For every breach of Regulation Four, the Penalty shall be a Sum not exceeding One Hundred current Dollars.

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, the 20th Day of March, 1858.

*

L. D'ALMADA & CASTRO,

Clerk of Councila.

大英欽奉全權大臣總督香港等處地方水陸軍務

會同議事官定是

者凡程千

任照列八

左百

之人每月前一日必要將餉銀機赴公庫呈納今初 第二欸凡年中所輸納承-

煮賣熟鴉片烟餉銀者其承-

者任由 大憲會同議事官主意着其書立保單 第一欸凡照律例內第二則所寫承-

煮賣熟鴉片烟保結 一千八百五十八年第二段律例爲煮賣熟鴉片烟章

交公

惟

庫

.大納餉於本年英三月三十一號起交惟餉銀必照

定月

成 到員 期

之

方

准年

更要釘在當眼之處 出賣其木牌之字至小者亦要英尺量三寸高爲度

日卽不應照第三則例發批 第五欸儿賣熟鴉片烟之人每月要交上期納餉如過期一

第七欸凡人有犯第四欸章程者每次罰銀一百員以下 鴉片觀其好醜爲試貨辦之用則准其開爐煮烟惟

第六歎凡除唐人之外港内有賣生鴉片烟土者如果想將

須釘木牌一個油漆寫正該人姓名並有熟鴉片烟 第四欸凡人在本港各地方及海面有賣熟鴉片烟者常時

以明辨者卽作不依本律內第二則例而爲 庫官所報之紙爲憑設承-

之人又不能有實據可 翌日定然寫紙簽名赴僚佐官署禀報如此則將管

第三欸凡每月到期之日倘是未見呈納餉銀者其管庫官

午係人欵

通有章

年用犯程

成第不

二員」

变

戊 午 年 二月初六日

定例

包