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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 2, 1909.

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(3) Not to part with any Opium in the raw state either by sale or otherwise, but only Prepared Opium fit for smoking.

(4) Not to grant to any person any licence to boil or prepare Opium,

(5) To have que establishment only for boiling; such establishment to be approved by the Governor.

(6) Not to have loose Opium (as defined by the Raw Opium Ordinance, 1887,) else- where than in his boiling establishment or any Raw Opium other than that covered by removal permit.

(7) To observe, perform and keep the provisions of the Raw Opium Ordinance, 1887, and of the Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909.

FORM OF GRANT.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I

Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in Executive Council, send Greeting:

WHEREAS, by the Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909, it is enacted amongst other things, that the Governor-in-Council may grant, in the manner provided by the said Ordinances, to any person, for such considerations and upon such conditions and for such periods and in such form as, from time to time, may be determined by the Governor-in- Council, the sole privilege of preparing Opium, and of selling, within the Colony, Opium so prepared, inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross and of preparing and dealing in Dross Opium,AND that the accepted bidder for, or the grantec of, such privileges, before he shall become entitled to the benefit thereof, shall give such security as the Governor-in-Council may require for the due performance of the conditions of such privileges and of his stipula- tions or agreement in respect thereof; AND WHEREAS the Governor-in-Council has accordingly agreed to grant to

(hereinafter referred to as the Grantee) the privileges hereinbefore mentioned, and known as the Opium Farm, established under the said Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909, for the term of three years from the 1st day of March, 1910, (inclusive), for the monthly sum of

on the conditions hereinafter contained: AND WHEREAS the Grantee has given the prescribed security for such grant to the satisfaction of the Governor-in-Council.

KNOW YE, therefore, that in pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the premises and of the payment by the Grantee of the monthly sum of on the first day of each month, in advance, during the term hereby granted, and in pur- suance of the said Ordinances, I, THE SAID GÖVERNOR, by and with the advice of the said Executive Council, have given and granted and by these presents (the form whereof has been determined by me in Council) under the seal of the said Colony for myself and my successors in the Government of the same, DO GIVE AND ‘GRANT unto the Grantee his executors and administrators, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of selling within the said Colony (including the New Territories) Opium so prepared inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross, and of preparing and dealing in Dross Opium, for and during the term hereinafter expressed, in conformity with, and subject to the Ordinances in that behalf pro- vided, and to the following conditions and stipulations :-

1. That the said monthly sum of $

shall, during the said term, be paid regularly in advance to the Colonial Treasurer and without demand on the first day of each calendar month, the first of such payments being made on the 1st day of March, 1910.

2. That the Grantee shall have no Raw Opium in possession except what is reported through the Imports and Exports Office; and, unless the special permission of the Governor to exceed that amount is obtained, shall not draw more than nine hundred chests of Raw Opium in each completed year of the Farm; and that if any prepared opium is imported into the Colony by the Grantee au equivalent deduction shall be made in the number of chests of Raw Opium drawn by the Grantee.

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