CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12] — Page 173

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yet been tecken out. It is reported that five

or sixe

of

the retail dealers have removed

their business to Chinese Kowloon . The

Police have been instructed to keep

sbrief watch on

a

any Opium that way. be illicitly imported from across the

Harbours

and the

.10. In order to exemerage information

encourage being given to the Excise Officero Police, and to stimulate these Officer to greater activity, I begts suggest the following

course

for distributing awa

awardo, (which is somewhat similar to that

approved of in

in C.1.0.

814

$3

and the

connected therewith, in cases

of arresto

under the Opium Ordinance 1884,) be adopted in cases under the prescut Ordinance, particularly as this Ordinance is to be read with the Ordinance of 1 8824, viz! :-

(a) that

award one

in

every

-case the Magistrate

half of the fine, if paid, to

the Informer, Excise or Police Officer,

the

CHD

19

and this

the

case

may be, together with one

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half of

the proceeds of the Opinen confiscated.

(b) that the other half of the fine be paid into the Treasury under the heading= of Quiem Revenue Account (Ontinance 22 of 10) ( c ) that all confiscated Raw Opium be delivered to the Superintendent of Imports and Export.

(d.) That all such confiscated Opium be immediately disposed of by the Superintendent to the Opium Farmer at the current rate of the day, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury under the same

account as above.

(C.) That the Magistracy First Clark forward to the cheperintendent a Rosily Rettern of

had before of all Magistrates with the following particiclas

1. Date

2. Case No

DOROI

the

3. Name of Informer, Excise Officer or brokibis 12. Residence of Informer 12 5. Fine imposed.

6. If

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