Use of opium and traffic therein : Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the committee appointed by the Philippine Commission to investigate the use of opium and the traffic therein, and the rules, ordinances, and laws regulating such use and traffic in Japan, Formosa, Shanghai, Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Burma, Java, and the Philippine Islands, and inclosing a letter from the Secretary of War.

  • United States. Philippine Commission (1899-1900). Opium Investigation Committee.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Use of opium and traffic therein : Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the committee appointed by the Philippine Commission to investigate the use of opium and the traffic therein, and the rules, ordinances, and laws regulating such use and traffic in Japan, Formosa, Shanghai, Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Burma, Java, and the Philippine Islands, and inclosing a letter from the Secretary of War. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    250 to determine and put an end to the said riglits and privileges, and to dispose of the same to other persons, and in the event of any loss arising therefrom, tlie opium farmer wdl make good the said loss to Her Majesty Queen Vietoria, her heirs and successors. 6. The opium farmer will, on entering on the privileges of his farm, take over from the outgoing ojiium farmer all his stock of exciseable articles, at such jirices as mav be settled, subject to the proviso hereinafter contained for arbitration in case of difference. 6. The said opium farmer will not, at or near the end of the term herein provided tor, prepare more than the usual quantity of chandu or sell any chandu at less than the average current prices of the day, and will not sell, export, or otherwise make away with, or dispose of any of the stock of ojiium or chandu, or the machinerv and vessels required for preparing chandu,. but will make over to such persons as may be invested with the rights and privileges of the opium farmer of the said settlement for the term next after the term herein provided for, the full and complete stock of opium and chandu and machinery and vessels required for preparing chandu proper, and sufficient for the due carrying on of the said farm, at the marketable value of the said articles, machi nery, and vessels so to be made over. 7., In the event of any difference arising as to quantities of chandu prepared or sold during the last three months of the farm, and the price thereof, and of the nature and quantity of articles, machinery, and vessels so to be purchased or made over, and the prices thereof, such difference shall be determined by qne or more refer- ences by three arbitrators, one to be appointed by the opium farmer, one by the incoming opium farmer, and one by the governor, and the award or awards of such arbitrators, or of a majority of them, shall be final, and the said arbitrations or other settlements shall be held at such time at or before or after the end of the said term as to the governor may seem reasonable. 8. « The chandu sold' by the opium farmer shall be of a quality to be approved from time to time by the government analyst as good and merchantable chandu, and shall contain at least per cent of morphine, of which shall be in the combina- tion known in chemistry as meconate of morphia, and the said farmer will, from time to time, whenever called upon by the said analyst to do so, furnish or permit to 1x3 taken for the purpose of analysis a reasonable quantity of chandu manufactured by him or sold at any establishment or shop under his control, and the said farmer will not, without the consent in writing of the governor, sell any chandu to the public at the farm or farm shop at any price exceeding the rates expressed in the following schedule; Per Tahil per Chi. Per 3 Hun packet. Per 4 Hun packet. ‘ ‘ Singapore—Town, “Penang—Town, Country, “ Province Wellesley, “ The Bindings, “Malacca—Town, Country Provided always that if at any time during the continuance of this contract the prices aforesaid shall he altered by the governor in council to the prejudice of the farmer, the farmer shall be entitled to demand and to receive from the government of the colony due compensation for the loss sustained by him in consequence of such alteration. The amount of such compensation, in case of difference, shall be referred to two arbitrators, one to be appointed by the governor and one b}' the farmer, such reference to be in all re.spects in accordance with the provisions of “the arbitration ordinance, 1890,” or any statutory modification thereof. 9. All deposits and securities made or given by or o7i behalf of the opium farmer shall be held b}' the governor till all questions between the opium farmer and Her Majesty (hieen Victoria, her heirs and successors, shall be finally dispose<l of, including matters relating to the jireparation or sale of chandu near the end of the term of this agreement, and in matters relating to the receipt and transfer of chandu machinery and vessels by the said farmer. 10. It shall be lawful for the governor, on breach of any of the covenants in this contract (such breach and the amount of jienalty therefor to be held as proved by endorsement on the back of this contract by the governor stating the brejich and the amount of penalty therefor), to sell and dispose of all or any of the said deposits or This section was substituted for the original by Ordinance IX of 1900 as amended by Ordinance XIX of 1903.