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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOV. 8, 1906. 2019

(3.) There shall be paid for each such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars which shall be awarded to the Opium Farmer.

(4.) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

12h. Every importer whether for exportation from Declaration or for sale or use within the Colony of morphine on im- or any compound of opium shall on the import- portation. ation thereof truly declare before the Super- intendent of Imports and Exports the amount of morphine or opium containe I therein and any such importer making a false declaration in this regard shall be guilty of au offence against this Ordinance,

12c. Every importer of morphine or any compound Royalty on

of opium which is intended for sale or use in morphine the Colony shall pay to the Opium Farmer and co- a royalty thereon calculated at the rate of thirty opium in- pounds of dollars per tack of morphine and three dollars ported for per tael of opium which royalty shall be paid use in the to the Opiuni Farmer and may be recovered by Colony. the Opium Farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.

The Governor-in-Council may at his dis- Exemptions.

eretion 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- ance: the name and description of any medicine so exempted shall be published in The Gazette.

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12d. The Governor shall and the Opium Farmer Bonded

may establish one or more bonded warehouses warehouses for the use of dealers in morphine and com-

for mor- pounds of opium imported for exportation and compounds

phine nud not for use or sale in the Colony and all such of opium. morphine and compounds of opium shall be stored in such warehouse or warehouses.

The Governor-in-Council may from time Regulations.

to time make, vary and rescind regu- lations with regard to the storage aud 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 us the Governor-in-Council may deem desirable and such regulations when published in The Gazette shall have the force of law.

5. Section 30 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by inserting the words "compounds of opium, of section 30 morphine," after the words "dross opium".

of the Principal Ordinance

to include

compounds of opium and morphine.

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

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 11th day of October, 1906.

Ordinance No. 10 of 1904.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of November, 1906.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.