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Permit for removal and tran- shipment.

Duties

of master,

owner or agent after arrival of ship.

Duties

of owner

or agent before departure of ship.

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(2.) The master of any ship departing from the Colony without the memorandum required by this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500. 14.—(1.) No person shall move raw opium from one place to another within the Colony or tranship it in the Colony or its waters without a permit in Form No. 7 in Schedule A of the principal Ordinance and except in accordance with the conditions in such permit contained.

(2.) Such permit may in his discretion be issued by the Superintendent on receipt of a requisition in Form No. 6 in the said Schedule and shall be exhibited to the Farmer or to his agent and shall be signed by the Farmer or his agent and shall not be used or acted upon until it has been so signed.

(3.) In the case of any raw opium other than Indian opium certified for the China mar- ket the Superintendent may before issuing a permit make it a condition of such permt that the raw opium in question is to be placed in a General or Licensed Ware- house.

(4.) In the case of raw opium certified for the China market the Superintendent may before issuing a permit demand the pro- duction of the certificate covering such opium.

15. The master, owner or agent of any ship by which opium may be imported shall within four hours after the arrival of such ship, or as soon thereafter as the Office of the Superintendent shall be open, furnish to the Superintendent a true and correct state- ment of all opium imported therein.

16. The owner or agent of any ship by which opium may be exported shall within twenty- four hours of the time of departure of such ship furnish to the Superintendent a true and correct statement of all opium exported therein which may have been entered on on the ship's manifest or for the receipt of which for export such owner or agent or any person acting on their behalf may have issued a receipt to any person."

(f.) in section 17 thereof by the deletion of the figures ❝9, 10, 12, 13 and 16" and by the substitution therefor of the figures "10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16” and by the deletion of the words five hundred dollars" and by the substitution therefor of the words "Two thousand dollars or at the Magistrate's dis- cretion to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months".

(9.) in section 20 thereof by the deletion of the words "according to the permit" and by the substitution therefor of the words "if its situation elsewhere has been authorised by any permit according to such permit" and by the deletion of the words "five hundred dollars" and by the substitution there- for of the words "two thousand dollars or at the Magistrate's discretion to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months".

(h.) by the addition at the end of section 35 thereof of

the following sub-sections :-

"(7.) The Farmer shall not sell to any person other than his licensees more than five taels of prepared opium at one time with- out the written permission of the Superin- tendent.

(8.) No licensee shall sell more than five taels of prepared opium to any person at one time without the written permission of the Superintendent.

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