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1610 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPT. 14, 1906.

Royalty on morphine and com- pounds of opium im- ported for use in the Colony,

Exemptions.

Banded warchouses for mer- phine and compounds of opium.

Regulations.

Amendment

12c. Every importer of morphine or any compound of opium which is intended for sale or use in the Colony shall pay to the Opium Farmer a royalty thereon calculated at the rate of thirty dollars per tacl of morphine and three dollars per tael of opium which royalty shall be paid to the Opium Farmer and may be recovered by the Opium Farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.

The Governor-in-Council may at his dis- cretion exempt any medicine containing morphine or opium or any compound of opium manufactured in and imported from Europe, America, or any British Colony from the provisions of the Principal Ordinance and this Ordin- auce: the name and description of any medicine so exempted shall he published in The Guzelte,

12d. The Governor shall and the Opium Farmer may establish one or more bonded warehouses for the use of dealers in morphine and com- pounds of opium imported for exportation and not for use or sale in the Colony and all morphine and compounds of opium shall be stored in such warehouse or warehouses.

The Governor-in-Conneil may from time to time make, vary and rescind regu- lations with regard to the storage and removal of morphine and compounds of opium in and from such warehouses, to the payment of charges for storage therein and to such other purposes as the Governor-in-Conneil may deem desirable and such regulations when published in The Gazette shall have the force of law.

5. Section 83 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby

of section 30- amended by inserting the words " compounds of opium,

morphine," after the words "dross opium ".

of the

Principal

Ordinance

to include

D

compounds

of opium and morphine.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 10 of 1904.

6. The Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1904, is hereby repealed,

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to make better provision for the establishment of bondel warehouses for morphine and com- pounds of opium, and to remove any doubt as to whether the provisious of the Principal Ordinance with regard to searches, arrests, possession, seizure and disposal and with regard to penalties and otherwise apply to morphine and compounds of opium.

HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney Generai,

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 776.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under the pro- visions of Section 2 (1) of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875 (Ordinance No. 7 of 1875), JoHN ROSKRUGE WOOD to be a Deputy Registrar of Marriages, during the absence on vacation leave of JAMES DYER BALL, or until further notice, with effect from the 1st instant.

14th September, 1906.