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THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 27TH MAR., 1884.

chemist or druggist, not being a Chinese, or being such and having a European or American diploma, shall he prevented from preparing er selling opium bonâ fide for medicinal purposes, the burthen of proof whereof shall be upon any person alleging the same in his defence.

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4. No person shall open or carry on any Divan or other place for the smoking of opium or dross opium without à license under this Ordinance.

Excise Officers.

5. The Governor may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, make an appointment in form of schedule A. to such agents or servants of the Opium Farmer as may be approved of by him to act as Excise Officers, and in case there is no such farmer then the Governor may in a similar form appoint such persons as he may think fit: and no persons except those so appointed shall be competent to act as Excise Officers under this Ordinance. Such appointments may at any time be withdrawn by the Governor; and any person, without lawful authority assuming to act as an Excise Officer under this Ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

6. The name and place of residence of every Excise Officer shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the Police Court.

7. Every Excise Officer shall be supplied with a badge bearing such sign or mark of office as may be directed by the Governor; and before acting against any person under the provisions of this Ordinanec, every such Excise Officer shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he is about to act his said badge. Every Police Offieer acting under the provisions of this Ordinance, if not in uniform, shall in like manner declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he is about to act such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police shall have directed or may direct to be carried by Police Officers when employed on secret or special service.

8. Persons who are Excise Officers at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been duly appointed under this Ordinance.

Farms.

9. The Governor in Council may grant to any per- son, for such considerations, and upon such conditions, and for such termas or periods, and in such form as from time to time may be by the Governor in Council regu- late and determined, and also previously notified to the public in the Gazette, the sole privilege of boiling and pre- paring 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 such pri- vilege 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; but every such bidder shall, before he is declared the purchaser of the privilege, give bond with suretics in the sum of twenty thousand cur- rent dollars at least, to the satisfaction of the Governor in Commeil, for the due performance of the conditions of the privilege, and of his stipulatious in respect thereof.

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10. The Governor in Council may farm out the privilege of keeping Divans for the smoking of opium to one or more than one person, on such terms and conditions as may seem to the Governor in Commeil expedient, and the grantee or grantees shall be empowered to grant licenses to separate keepers of such Divaus. The Governor in Council amy make such regulations as to the division of such Opium Divans into classes as many seem to him expedient, and in the event of there being no Farmer for any class the Colonial Secretary may 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 mauner 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 lenses to prepare and to deal in dress opium and may revoke the same on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.

Smoking Divans,

(4 of 13, s. 4.)

Excise Officers. (1 of 78, 9, 11, 4 of 13, 4.2.)

Their names and residenc48," (1 of 79, s. 12.)

Their badges. 1 of 79, s. 13, 4 of 3, s. 2.)

Existing officers.

Opium Farm. (2 of us, s. 2.)

Farming of Opiumi Divans and Pre- (4 of ~3, x. 4)

Dross Opium.

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