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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1888.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 284.

The following Notification with reference to the sale of the Opium Farm is substituted for Government Notification No. 269 published in the Government Gazette of the 16th day of June, 1888:-

Sealed Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office till 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the 28th day of June, 1888, for the purchase of the entire privileges and monopolies known as the Prepared Opium Farms established under The Opium Ordinances 1884 and 1887, for three years from March 1st, 1889.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1888.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

CONDITIONS OF TENDERING.

1. No tender will be received unless the tenderer produces a receipt from the Treasurer for,--

(i.) A deposit of $30,000, or of Title Deeds, or other approved securities to a like amount,

and

(ii.) A stamped agreement to be executed by him on a form provided by the Treasurer, to the effect that, if he should decline to accept a grant of the Farm on the terms of the tender sent in by him, such deposit or securities shall be forfeited to the Crown. Such deposit must be completed not later than Noon on the 27th of June. All such deposits will be returned to unsuccessful tenderers.

2. The tender must state the monthly sum offered for the Farms as rent.

3. The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.

4. The Security deposited with the Treasurer by the successful tenderer will be retained, until such successful tenderer shall have entered into a Bond and lodged security either in money or title deeds to the value of two months' rent of the Farm for the due performance of the conditions of such bond.

5. The Governor in Council will execute to the accepted Tenderer a Grant in the form hereinafter set out.

CONDITIONS to be fulfilled by the Grantee of the Opium Farm, and the breach of which will involve forfeiture of the Grant and of the penalty of the Bond to be signed in connection therewith.

(1.) The payment of the monthly fee regularly in advance, from the 1st day of March, 1889. (2.) To have no Opium in possession except what is reported through the Imports and Exports Office; and to pay a fee of $165 per picul for all Opium received in excess of 3,600 chests each year.

(3.) Not to part with any Opium in the raw state either by sale or otherwise, but only prepared Opium fit for smoking.

FORM OF GRANT.

TO ALL TO WHOM these Presents shall come, I, SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, in Executive Council, SEND GREETING: WHEREAS by the Opium Ordinances 1884 and 1887, it is enacted amongst other things that the Governor in Council may grant to any person for such consideration and upon such conditions and for such terms or periods and in such form as from time to time may be by the Governor in Council regulated and determined and also previously notified to the public, in the Gazette the sole privilege of boiling and preparing Opium either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium, and of selling and retailing within the said Colony or the waters thereof opium so boiled or prepared, and that such privilege may from time to time be granted to the highest bidder to be ascertained either by public auction or by tender to be made in pursuance of notice to be published in the Gazette to that effect; AND WHEREAS it is by the said Ordinance also