THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH MAY, 1887.
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W. G. CAMERON.
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No. 22 of 1887.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the better regulating of the trade in Opium.
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[27th May, 1887.]
HEREAS it is expedient to regulate and control the movement of Raw Opium within the Colony and the waters thereof: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance and the Opium Ordinance of 1884, hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, shall be construed together as one Ordinance to be called The Opium Ordi- nances 1884 and 1887.
2. Opium in this Ordinance means raw, crude, or un- prepared Opium.
Chest of Opium means the package, with the opium therein, such as is usually imported by merchants in the Colony.
Ship in this Ordinance and in the principal Ordinance shall be construed so as to include any steam- vessel, junk, boat, sampan, or any kind of craft used for conveyance of persons or things by water.
3. No person shall bring into the Colony or the waters thereof, or receive therein Opium in quantities less than one chest so brought into the Colony or its waters.
4. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Governor in Council, to grant licences for the sale of Opium intended for export in quantities less than one chest, and no person except the holders of such licences shall be permitted to sell or barter within the Colony or its waters Opium in quantities less than one chest. The purchase, sale, or barter of quantities less than one ball of Bengal Opium or three catties of Malwa, Persian, or Turkish Opium is hereby forbidden.
5. It shall be the duty of holders of licences to attach to all parcels of Opium sold by them in quantities less than one chest, a 'certificate in the following form :-
Construction.
Interpreta- tion.
Import of Opium less than one chest prohibited.
Sale of Opfum in quantities less than one chest.
Sale certif- extes granted by licensees.
No.
Sold this day to
balls Bengal.
Date,
catties Malwa or
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to be exported by him to
per ship
This certificate shall not be valid after noon of the
Chop.
6. No person except the Opium Farmer or the licensed retail dealers shall have in his possession or under his custody or control Opium in quantities less than one chest without a certificate of purchase from a Licensee except he can show to the satisfaction of a Magistrate :-
(a.) That the said Opium is covered by a certificate
of one of the Licensees.
(b.) That he has received it under an official export
permit. Provided always that it shall be in the. absolute discretion of the officer charged with issuing export permits to grant or withhold the same, and that this section shall not apply to samples not exceeding two taels covered by a certificate of the importer.
What persons may have Opfum in quantities less than one chest.
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