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IN" SINGAPORE, 
eel to sell, Tye Chandoo or Opium Dross, under the penalties des¬ 
cribed in Section 4. 
Section 17th. All person, employed in retailing- or smoking Opi¬ 
um shall take out a license from the Collector. 
So finishes the rules that authorise the smoking - of Opium, and 
virtually encourage the vice, but enlarge the revenue. They are 
therefore taken as the basis for regulations anent the use of Opium 
at Hongkong, where Regulation I. enacts that no person not duly li¬ 
cenced by Government shall sell or retail opium for consumption in 
smaller quantity than one chest under a penalty for the first offence 
% 100, second offence % 250, and for every subsequent offence 
& 500. 
Rule. 2d. The number of houses shall be determined by Ids Ex¬ 
cellency the Governor in Council, or by such public officer as may be 
duly authorised. Such houses ahall adjoin the Street and shall be 
open from day light until 10 o’clock at night during each day, ex¬ 
cept Sunday; (bare faced hypocricy, as if God was not the God of 
other days.) Penalties are attached to the infringement of this rule. 
3d. Opium shall not be disposed of except for money. 
4th. No persons shall be admitted with arms, weapons or edged 
tools. 
5th. All riotous persons shall be handed over to the Police. 
6th. Permits any person duly licensed to retail Opium, on obtain¬ 
ing a warrant, to board any vessel in search of Opium illicitly retailed. 
7th. No person permitted within the limits of Hongkong to sell 
Tye Chandu, or Opium dross, under fines forfeitures and penalties 
of rule 1st. 
9th. All persons in charge of Opium shops shall take out a li¬ 
cense from the person duly licensed as aforesaid. 
10th. Enacts that the penalties be levied by distress; but failing 
sufficient distress to be commuted to future imprisonment. 
(Sigd.) J. T Davis. 
“ To which regulations,” to use the words of Montgomery Martin, 
<c I would dissent, because no Government ought to make private vice 
a source of public revenue.” 
