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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1910.

6. Any such fine ordered by the Governor-in-Council Mode of to be levied shall be a first charge upon the property of all levying fine. persons who are registered in the Land Office as owners of land which is within the aren specified in the said order and who reside within such area and it shall be recoverable in the same manner in all respects as Crown Rent is recoverable.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to prevent Saving of any person from being prosecuted under the Principal liability to

other penal- Ordinance or any other enactment under which before the ties. commencement of this Ordinance he might have been prosecuted for injuring or cutting down trees or for the stealing or unlawful possession of wood or for doing any wantou and malicious damage of any nature whatsoever ou or upon any Crown property or land.

8. The Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888, and the Repeal of the Malicious Damage Ameulment Ordinance, 1909, are here- Trees Preser- by repealed.

Passed the Legislative Comeil of Hongkong, this 2mi day of June, 1910.

vation Ordinance. 1888, and the Malicious

Damage Amendment Ordinance.

1909.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Counces,

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 4th day of June, 1910.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG.

No. 1 OF 1910.

An Ordinance to amend the Opin Ordinance,

1909.

LS

F. H. MAY,

Officer Administering the Government,

[4th June, 1910.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- Short title ment Ordinance, 1910, and should be read and construed and

as one with the Opium Ordinance, 1905, (hereinafter called construction. "the Principal Ordinance")

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by adding at the end thereof the following:- of the

of section 2

»To export" means and includes to convey out of Principal

the Colony and to do any act preparatory to or Ordinance, for the purpose of causing convoyance out of the Colony."

3.--(1.) Any person not holding an appropriate licence Po-session of under section 51 or 53 of the Principal Ordinance found morphine or in possession within the Colony of any morphine or compound compound of opium. of opium shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court or Magistrate either that such morphine or compound of opium is exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance or that he obtained possession of such morphine or compound of opium in accordance with any regulations made under this Ordinance.

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