THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH MARCH, 1884.
Farming of Opium Divans add Dross. (4 of 53, & 4.)
Dross Oplum,
Fines under farm system. (* of 58, s. 12.)
Protection of Divan and Dress farmers.
Default in payment for farm, resale. (2 PE 3, 5. 4.)
Sub-licences. (2 of 58, 6.3.)
Sales.
Certificate.
(2 of 59, s. 7, * ct 73, s. 3, 4 of 53, s. 1.)
lated and determined, and also previously notified to the public in the Gazette, the sole privilege of boiling and pro- paring opium cither inclusive or exclusive of dross opium, and of selling and retailing within the said Colony, of the waters thereof, opina so boiled or prepared; and such pri- . vilege may from time to time be granted to the highest bidder, to be ascertained either by public auction or by fender, to be made in pursuance of notice to be published in the Gazette to that effect; bat every such bidder shall, before he is declared the purchaser of the privilege, give boud with suretics in the sum of ten thousand current dollars at least, to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, for the due performance of the conditions of the privilege, and of his stipulations in respect thereof.
10. The Governor in Conneil may farm out the privilege of keeping Divaus for the smoking of opium to one or more than one person, on such terms and conditions as may seem to the Governor in Council expedient, and the grantee or grantees shall be empowered to grant licenses to separate keepers of such Divans. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as to the division of such Opium Divans into classes as may seem to him expedient, and in the event of there being no Farmer for any class the Colonial Secretary is hereby empowered to grant licenses and to revoke the same on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.
11. The Governor in Council may in like manner farm out the privilege of collecting, dealing in, and preparing dross opium and in the event of there being no farmer the Colonial Secretary may grant licenses to prepare and to deal in dross opium and may revoke the same on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.
12. The Governor in Council may make and when made revoke, add to, or alter a scale of fines to be levied for breaches of the Regulations under which any Farin is created under this Ordinance. Every fine provided by such Scale of Fines shall be levied in the same manner as the fines imposed by this Ordinance.
13. All the provisious of this Ordinance as to searches, arrests, possession, the seizure and disposal of opium, utensils, vessels, or implements used for preparing or smok- ing the same, and the disposal thereof, penalties and their division, rewards to informers, and penalties for false charges or irregular proceedings under this Ordinance, shall apply, so far as circumstances will permit, in relation to all cases of any infraction of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder with respect to Ophun Smoking Divans, or to the preparation of or dealing in dross opium.
14. If the consideration money for any Farm created under this Ordinance, or any instalment thereof, be not paid within one month next after the day appointed for the payment thereof, the said farm shall become and be abso- lutely null and void; and, over and above all other such liabilities as are hereinbefore or hereinafter created, the Farmer shall thereupon become and be liable to make good to the Government all losses or expenses incurred by, or by reason of such default in payment or any resale or regrant of such privilege which the Governor in Council may thereupon make, and to make which he is hereby authorised.
15. The Opium Farmer, if any, or in default of any such farmer, the Governor in Council is hereby em- powered to grant licences to all proper persons, autho- rising them to boil and prepare opima, and to sell and retail opium so boiled and prepared; but such licences shall be granted subject to such conditions as shall from time to time be by the Governor in Council regulated and previously notified in the Gazette. And the provisions of section 12 of this Ordinance as to a Scale of Fines for breaches of Regulations made under this Ordinance shall apply equally to all breaches of regulations made and notified as aforesaid with regard to such licences for the boiling and preparation of opium.
16. It shall be the duty of every person selling or retail- ing prepared opium, not being dross opin, under this Ordi- nance, to deliver therewith a certificate in English and Chinese, stamped with the stamp used by him in carry- ing on his business, specifying the amount so sold; which certificate shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and shall not be transferable, and shall be in one of the forms
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