Enclosure /
No. 10-[27.3.1900.]
78
A BILL
ENTRALED
An Ordinance to further amend The Raw Opium
Ordinance, 1887.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
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1. This Onliance may be cited as the Raw Opium Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1900, and shall be read and con- and Con- strued as one with Ordinance No. 22 of 1887 (as amended struction. by Ordinance No. 22 of 1891) hereinafter referred to as the princips! Ordinance,
2. The following additional section shall be inserted after section 10 of the principal Ordinance, and be nam- bered 10 (A) —
10 (4). The Superintendent shall furnish the master Memoran- of every vessel (including junks) carrying opium for dum of export, with a memorandum containing the particulars pium ex- ported, and furbished in schedule D, and no vessel carrying opium duplicate. shall, subject to the provisions of section 12, depart from the Colony without such memorandum.
The Superintendent shall also, in the case of a steamer, forward a duplicate of such memorandum, by post, to the Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Mari- time Customs at the port of destination. And, in the case of a junk, or steam launch, he shall forward the said duplicate memorandum to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Hougkong, for transmission to the Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs controlling the Customs Station through which such opium is to pass.
3. The following additional section shall be inserted after section 12 of the principal Ordinance, and be num- bered 12 (A)
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12 (4). In the event of the departure from the Telegram to Colony, of any steamer carrying opium, before ap- where plication for an export permit can be made, (in the steamer circumstances stated in section 12) the Superintendent departs shall, upon receipt of the requisite particulars, tele- without graph the same to the Commissioner of Chinese permit. Imperial Maritime Customs at the port of destination, and forward, as soon as practicable, the memorandum provided for in section 108, to the said Commissioner.
4. The master of any vessel departing from the Colony Penalty. without the memorandum required by section 10A (ex- cept in the case provided for by section 12) shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Objects and Reasons.
The amendments of the Law relating to opium effected by this Ordinance are made with the view of assisting the Chinese Government in the collection of revenue from the import of raw opium and of rendering smuggling more difficult. The second section requires the Superintendout of Imports and Exports to furnish the master of every ves- sel carrying opium for export with a memorandum con- taining certain particulars as to such opium, and it requires him to forward a duplicate of such inemorandum for the information of the proper Commissioner of Chinese Im- perial Maritime Customs. It also forbids the departure of noy vessel carrying opium, without such meniorandum, subject to the provisions of section twelve of the principal Ordinance. The third section provides that, in cases within that section twelve, that is where steamers are allowed to depart before application for a permit can be made, the Superintendent should telegraph to the Com- nissioner of Customs the requisite particulars, sending on the memorandum as soon as practicable. The fourth section provides a penalty for any infringement, by the master of a vessel, of the requirements of the second section. This systein should keep the Customs Commissioners well in- formed of all opium exported from this Colony to China.
W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Attorney Genera?.
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