The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-17

Be 1T ENACTED by the Executive and
Advisory Councils OF the Provisio nal |
Government of the Hawaiian Is |
lands.
SECTION /. The importation of opium
or any preparation thereof into the Ha-
waiian Islands, except as authorized by
Section OF this Act, is hereby strictly
prohibited, and whoever shall import,
sell, give or furnish opium, or any pre-
paration thereof, to any person in the
Hawaiian Islands, except as prov ded in
Section OF this Act, shall be liable 10
penalty of not less than five hundred
dollars, nor more than two thousand
dollars, and to be imprisoned at hard
labor for any term not less than six
months, nor more than two years; 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 2. The Board OF Health may
from time import such quantities of
opium, or preparations thereof, as the
said Board shall deem necessary for
medical purposes in the Hawaiian ISL
ands, and shall furnish it at cost price 10
any physician or surgeon having a
diploma or certificate from some medical
college or university, and who has
license to practice medicine in the Ha-
waiian Islands; also to the person in
charge of the medicines at the Leper
Settlement at Molokai, to be issued ex-
clusively for medical purposes. And the
said Board may also furnish it to the
captain or surgeon of any vessel bound
to foreign port for use on board of such
vessel.
SECTION 8. Amy 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 = of
this Act, shall forfeit such opium or pre-
paration thereof to the Government, and
the same shall be seized and delivered
to the Board of Health and such person
shall be liable to a penalty of not less
than fifty nor more than two hundred
and fifty dollars, or to be imprisoned at
hard labor for term of not less than one
month nor more than six months, or
both, in the discretion of the magistrate,
one-half of which pecuniary penalty
shall be paid to the party giving the in,
formation which shall lead to the con
viction OF the offender.
SECTION 4. Any physician or surgeon
who shall sell, prescribe or furnish
opium, or any preparation thereof, t.
any person in the habit of smoking o.
otherwise using the same, or to an,
other person, except as remedy in cas-
of sickness, shall forfeit to the Govern
ment all opium, or preparations thereof
which may be in his possession; and
shall be seized and delivered to tn
Board of Health, and he shall be fiEe'
in the sum of not less than twenty-fv
nor more than one hundred dollars an
if he shall violate this Act more thai
once he shall not again be furnishe
with opium by the Board OF Health.
SECTION 5. All confscated opium Q
preparations thereof which shall hay
come into the possession OF the Board {
Health, shall be securely kept until sue
time as the same shall be disposed of q
hereinafter provided, except that wher
the quantity of opium seized shall be les
than one one-half pound tin the sam
shall be destroyed.
SECTION 6. The Board oil Health sha
as soon as practicable sell all confscate
opium or preparations thereof whic
shall have come into its possession, an
at such price as it shall deem fit, sue
sale may be either public or private,
the discretion of the Board; provide
that all opium so sod shall be exporte
from this country. One half of the gro
proceeds derived from the sale OF CO
fiscated opium shall go to the informa
in addition to the compensation as pr
vided in Section l OF this Act, and Il
balance shall be the property of Il
Government.
SECTION Z. The several District Ma
istrates are hereby invested with auth
rty TO try and determine all cases arisil
under this law.
seeTIos s. Nothing in this Act sh
be construed to exempt any person
vessel from the pains and penalties pl
se1bed by the laws OF the Hawaii
Islands against smuggling. nor 10 aft,
any prosecutions pending at tho date
tile aPpr9yal d this Asst.
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