The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-02-21

BE- IT ENACTED by the. Executive and
Advisory Councils OF the Provisional
Government Of the Hawaiian Is
lands.
SECTION l. The importation OF opium
or anv 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 provided IN
Section , Of this Act, shall be liable to
penalty of not less than five hundred
dollars, nor more than two thousand
dollars, and 10 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 .. 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 to
any physician or surgeon having
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 5. 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 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 penalty OF not less
than fifty nor more than two hundred
and fifty dollars, or to be imprisoned at
hard labor for a 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, to
any person in the habit OF smoking or
otherwise using the same, or to any |
other person, except as remedy in case
of sickness, shall forfeit to the Govern
ment all opium, or preparations thereof,
which may be in his possession; and it |
shall be seized and delivered to the
Board of Health, and he shall be fired
in the sum of not less than twenty-five
nor more than one hundred 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 5. All confscated opium or
preparations thereof which shall have
come into the possession oil 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 one-half pound tin the same
shall be destroyed.
SECTION 6. The Board OF Health shall
as soon as practicable sell all confscated
opium or preparations thereof which
shall have come into its possession, and
at such price as it shall deem fit, such
sale may be either public or private, in
The discretion OF the Board; provided
hat all opium so sold shall be exported
rom this country. One half of the gross
proceeds derived from the sale of con-
iscated opium shall go to the informant
in addition to the compensation as pro-
rided in Section l of this Act, and the
balance shall be the property OF the
Government.
SECTION Z. The several District Mag