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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH DECEMBER, 1879.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the majority of the arbitrators

to determine and they are hereby empowered to decide in

each particular case what are usual quantities within the meaning of this Ordinance.

(3.) In case the outgoing or the incoming holder of the exclusive privilege fails to appoint an arbitrator within ten days from his receiving notice from the Governor so to do, it shall be lawful for the other two arbitrators to proceed with the award and in case of difference of opinion, they

shall appoint an umpire, whose award shall be final aud

may be filed in Court pursuant to the provisions of "The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure.”

(4.) The Governor in fixing the time for holding the arbitration shall also fix the period within which the award is to be completed, and the same shall be specified in the appointment.

(5.) The arbitrators shall have the same powers as if the appointment and reference to arbitration had been made by an order of the Supreme Court under the provisions of "The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure," and such award in each case shall be final.

VIII. It shall be lawful for an Inspector of Police having reasonable ground for believing that there is boiled or pre- pared opium in any ship within the waters of the Colony contrary to the provisions of the Opium Ordinances, (such ship not being a ship of war or vessel having the status of a ship of war) to proceed without warrant on board such ship and search for boiled or prepared opium and seize any boiled or prepared opium so found, and it shall be lawful for such Inspector to take the opium so found together with the person in whose custody possession or control it is found

before a Police Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.

IX. It shall be lawful for any Police or Excise Officer to arrest, without warrant, any person within the Colony whom he reasonably suspects to be conveying or to have concealed on his person boiled or prepared opium which has not paid duty to the holder of the exclusive privilege, and to convey such person to the nearest Police Station, there to be dealt with according to law.

X. Section XIV of Ordinance 2 of 1858 is hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof, it is hereby enacted:----If any charge or complaint shall be preferred under "the Excise Ordinance (Opium)1858-1879" or under any of the said regu- lations made thereunder and upon the said charge or complaint the accused shall be convicted, the pecuniary penalty imposed upon the offender shall, after the adjudication of a portion of the same not exceeding one half at the discretion of the Magistrate to the informer, be paid to the holder of the exclusive privilege, and all the boiled or prepared opium to

which the same relates shall be forfeited and by the Magis-

trate adjudged and delivered to the holder of the privilege.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 9th

day of December, 1879.

H. E. WODEHOUSE,

Clerk of Councils.

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