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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 24, 1914.

ABSENT:

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His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General FRANCIS HENRY KELLY, C.B.), (absent on Military duty).

The Honourable Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT, C.M.G.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th February, 1914, were read and confirmed.

NEW MEMBER.Mr. LAU CHỮ PAR made the necessary declaration and assumed his seat as a Member of the Council.

RESOLUTION.-The Colonial Secretary moved the following Resolution :-

Whereas by section 2 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, it is provided inter alia that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council at any time by resolution to declare that any article named and described in Schedule A to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, shall be deemed to be a poison for the purposes of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910, as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908:

And Whereas the articles designated in the Schedule to this resolution are named

and described in Schedule A to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908:

Now is it hereby resolved and declared by the Legislative Council that the articles designated in the Schedule to this resolution shall be deemed to be poisons for the purposes of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910.

Schedule.

Morphine, Codeine and any alkaloid of opium, Heroin, Dionin, Peronin, their salts, derivatives, solutons, admixtures and preparations of any kind what- soever of such, except prepared or smoking opium as prepared by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

The Attorney General seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

RESOLUTION.-The Colonial Secretary moved the following Resolution :----

Whereas by the provisions of section 5 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, it is inter

alia provided as follows:--

5.-(1.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any reso- lution of the Legislative Council as being illegal.

(2.) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall not

apply:-

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(c.) to opium brought into the Colony on any ship under a bill of lading to some place to which such opium may in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council notified in the Gazette be lawfully imported and whether or not such im- portation is accompanied by direct or indirect transhipment in the Colony."

Now it is hereby resolved under the provisions of sub-section (2) (c) of section 5

of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, as follows:-

(1) that raw Indian opium brought into the Colony on any ship under a bill of lading for the Island of Formosa may be lawfully imported into the Island of Formosa whether or not such impor- tation is accompanied by direct or indirect transhipment in the Colony;