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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    288 and to be imprisoned at hard labor for any term not less than one month nor more than two years, one-half of which pecuniary penalty shall be paid to the person or persons giving the information which shall lead to the conviction of the offender. Section 1634. The hoard of health may, from time to time, import such quantity of opium, or preparation thereof, as the said board shall deem necessary for medical purposes in the Hawaiian Islands, and shall furnish it at cost price to any physician or surgeon having a diploma from some medical college or university, and who has a license to practice medicine in the Hawaiian Islands; also, to the person in charge of the medi- cines at the leper settlement at Molokai, to be used exclusively for medical purposes. .4nd the said hoard may also furnish it to the captain or surgeon of any vessel bound to a foreign port for use on board of such vessel. Section 1635. Any person who shall have in his possession opium, or any preparation thereof, which he shall not have received from the board of health, or from a duly licensed physician or surgeon, as prescribed in section 1634, shall forfeit such opium, or prepa- ration thereof, to the government, and the same shall he seized and delivered to the board of health; and such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty (50) nor more than two hundred and fifty (250) dollars, or to be imprisoned at hard labor for a term of not less than one (1) month nor more than (6) months, or both, at the discretion of the magistrate, one-half of which pecuniary penalty shall be paid to the party giving the information which shall lead to the conviction of the offender. Section 1636. Any physician or surgeon who shall sell, prescribe, or furnish opium, or any prepa- ration thereof, to any person in the habit of smoking or otherwise using the same, or to any other person, except as a remedy in case of sickness, shall forfeit to the government all opium, or preparation thereof, which may be in his possession; and it shall be seized and delivered to the board of health, and he shall be fined in the pm of not Ips than twenty-five (25) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars; and if he shall violate this act more than once he shall not again be furnished with opium by the board of health. Section 1637. All confiscated opium, or preparations thereof, which shall have come into the possession of the board of health shall be securely kept until such time as the same shall be disposed of, as hereinafter provided, except that where the quantity- of opium seized shall be less than one-half (J) pound the same shall be destroyed. Section 1638. The board of health shall, as soon as practicable, sell all confiscated opium, or preparations thereof, which shall have come into its possession, and at such price as it may deem fit; and such sale may be either public or private, in the discretion of the board, provided that all opium so sold shall be exported from this country. The proceeds derived from the sale of confiscated opium shall be the property of the Hawaiian government: Provided, however, that the board of health may, in its dis- cretion, destroy any or all o[iium which may have come into its possession under the provisions of this act. In lieu of one-half of the gross proceeds of the sale of the con- hscated opium heretofore paid the informer, said informer shall be paid the sum of one (1) dollar per pound of actual opium, or preparation thereof, seized and confis- cated, said sum to be paid from any fund that may be available for said purpose, and shall be payable upon the confiscation of-said opium to the government. Section 1639. The several district magistrates are hereby invested with authority to try and determine all cases arising under this law. .y uy anu Section 1640. Nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt any pains and penalties prescribed by the laws of the Hawaiian jierson or vessel from the Islands against smuggling. o