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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 20, 1911.

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FINANCIAL MINUTES.-The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minute No. 56, and moved that it be referred to the Finance Committee :-

No. 56.-Public Works, Extraordinary, Miscellaneous Works, ...$3,000.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee dated the 24th August, 1911, and moved its adoption.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the following paper:--

Diagram of the Mong-Kok-Tsui Breakwater showing progress of stone depositing

to 30th June, 1911.

OPIUM AMENDMENT BILL.-The Colonial Secretary moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909.

The Attorney General seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

On the motion of the Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, the follow- ing amendments were agreed to :-

Sub-section (1) of Section 2 was amended to read as follows:-

"3.-(1.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legisla- tive Council as being illegal."

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In section 2, sub-section (2), the words "Superintendent of Imports and Exports' were substituted for the words "Colonial Secretary" in the fourth lin", and the word

'through" in the seventh line was deleted.

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In section 2, sub-section (3), the word "in" in the first line was deleted, the words any loose opium were inserted after the word "importation" in the second line, and the words any loose opium" in the last line were deleted.

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Section 4 was deleted.

On Council resuming the Colonial Secretary reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with various amendments and moved that it be read a third time.

The Attorney General seconded, motion agreed to, Bill read a third time and passed.

RESOLUTION.On the motion of the Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, it was unanimously resolved as follows:--

Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it is provided as follows-"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shal! have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal" :

It is therefore hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the importation of any kind of raw Indian Opium except Opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China is illegal.

This Resolution shall not apply to any bona fide shipments of uncertificated Indian'

Opium which have been made from Calcutta or Bombay by a vessel sailing prior to 21st August, 1911, and which have not been landed at any port after such shipment.