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520 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 4, 1910.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 341.-His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinance :-

Ordinance No. 19 of 1910, entitled-An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation

of a Supplementary Sum of Three hun- dred and fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three Dollars and thirty-two- Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1909.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

31st October, 1910.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 342.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Mr. CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER to be Vice-Chairman of the Licensing Board during the absence from the Colony of the Honourable Mr. ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON or until further notice.

3rd November, 1910.

NOTICES.

No. 343. The following is published for general information.

4th November, 1910.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

King's Regulations under Article 155 of "The China and Corea Order in Council, 1904"..

No. 2 of 1910.

PROHIBITION OF THE IMPORTATION AND MANUFACTURE

OF COCAINE.

Whereas His Britannic Majesty's Government have agreed with the Chinese Government that it is desirable to regulate the importation and manufacture of cocaine into and in China ;- And whereas measures for the said regulations have been agreed to by all other treaty Powers:

It is hereby ordered as follows:-

1. On and after December 1st, 1910, any British subject importing into China. cocaine or instruments for the injection of cocaine, except in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 11 of the treaty of the 5th September, 1902, for the importation of morphia, or any British subject manufacturing in China cocaine or instruments for the injection of cocaine, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50l., or to imprison- ment to any term not exceeding three months, or to both such punishments, and the cocaine and the instruments for the injection of cocaine may be declared to be forfeited.

2. These regulations may be cited as "The Cocaine Prohibition Regulations".

PEKING, October 8th, 1910.

W. G. MAX MÜLLER,

His Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affate

Approved:

E. GREY,

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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