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SUPPLEMENT

To the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of 23rd June, 1888.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 293.

The Governor in Council has approved the following final Notification with reference to the sale of the Opium Farm, all former Notifications being withdrawn.

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 Farm established under The Opium Ordinances 1884 and 1887, for three years from March 1st, 1889.

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 Farm 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 Tendercr 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 Opiuua fit for smoking.

(4.) Not to grant to any person any licence to boil or prepare Opium.

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