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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1884. 1771


Opium.


trate to cause a notice to be affixed at the place where any such article
may be found, calling upon the owner thereof to claim the same ; and in
case no person shall come forward to make a claim within one week from
the date of such notice, the samne, together with any raw opium that may
be found in the same place, shall be forfeited , and may be handed over
by the Magistrate to the farmer.
37. In dismissing any charge or complaint under this Ordinance False charges,
&c.
on the ground of the same being false, or frivolous and vexatious , it [ 2 of58, s. 15. ]
shall be the duty of the Court to impose upon the person bringing the
same any penalty not exceeding the penalty which the defendant, if
convicted upon such charge or complaint , would have incurred , such
penalty shall be over and above any other penalties or liabilities which

the said person may have likewise incurred in respect of his said charge
or complaint, or of his evidence in support thereof.
38. Over and above all other liabilities or penalties to which, by Irregular
proceedings.
this Ordinance or any other law, any person shall become or be subject [ 2 of 58 , s. 16. ]
in respect of his suing out, obtaining , issuing, or executing improperly ,
and without sufficient cause, any search warrant under this Ordinance,
the said person shall be further liable to the penalties specified in section
33, to be enforced and levied as hereinbefore provided .

39. Persons employed in any department of the Public Service, Public
servants
and persons in the employment of them , or of any of them , are disquali disqualified .
[ 2 of 58, s. 6. ]
fied from becoming or being in any way possessed of, or directly or
indirectly interested in any privilege or licence under this Ordinance , or
the profits thereof, whether at law or in equity, and whether in their
own right respectively , or in the right of another ; and from suing for
or in respect of, or in any way enforcing the same.
40. The following Ordinances are hereby repealed, Repeals.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1858 ,
Ordinance No. 1 of 1879,
Ordinance No. 7 of 1879 ,
Ordinance No. 4 of 1883 ,
Ordinance No. 8 of 1883 ,

but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or commenced to Regulations,
&c. to
be done thereunder, and every regulation , bond, or licence made or continue.
issued under the above repealed Ordinances shall continue in full effect
as if made or issued under this Ordinance, until such regulation, bond,

or licence shall be duly cancelled , amended , withdrawn , or shall expire.