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Provided always that before the matter is submitted to the Governor-in-Council for decision a report shall be made by the District Officer and an Assistant District Officer who shall sit together and hold a judicial inquiry at the said village so as to give the persons on whom the punish- ment may fall a full opportunity of putting forward any defence that they may have to urge.

6. Any such fine ordered by the Governor-in-Comcil 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 area 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.

ties.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to prevent Saving of any person from being prosecuted under the Principal liability to Ordinance or any other enactment under which before the other penal- 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 wanton and malicious damage of any nature whatsoever on or upon any Crown property or land.

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Ordinance, 1888, and the Repeal of the Malicious Damage Amendment Ordinance, 1909, are here- Trees Preser- by repealed.

vation Ordinance, 1888, and the Malicious Damage Amendment Ordinance, 1909.

Memorandum.

This Bill repeals the Malicious Damage Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and re-enacts Part I without any amend-

ment.

Part II is amended by declaring that the Governor-in- Council instead of the Governor shall impose the fine which is payable under section 5.

Before the matter is submitted to the Governor-in- Council for decision, an inquiry is to be held by the Dis- trict Officer and an Assistant District Officer in order to give the persons on whom the punishment may fall a full opportunity of being heard.

A BILL

ENTITLED

F. A. HAZELAND,

Attorney General.

An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,

1909.

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

construction,

as one with the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (hereinafter called "the Principal Ordinance").

2. Any person found in possession within the Colony Possession of of any morphine or compound of opium shall be deemed morphine or to have committed an offence against this Ordinance unless compound

of opium. 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 Ordin-

ance.

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