The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-21
ACT. 12.
An Act to Restrict the Impor-
tation: andsSale of:Opium or
Preparations Thereof.

Be IT ENACTED by the Executive anC
Advisory Councils OF the Provisional
Government OF the Hawaiian Isl
ands.
SECTION 1. The importation of opium
or any preparation thereof into the Ha'
waiian Islands, except as authorized by
Section 2 OF. this Act, is hereby strictly
prohibited, and whoever shall import,
sell, give or furnish opium, or any prep
aration thereof, to any person in the
Hawaiian Islands, except as provided in
Section of this Act, shall be liable to a
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 to 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 a
diploma or certificate from some medical
college or university, and who has a
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 3. 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 duly licensed physician or
surgeon, as prescribed in Section of
this Act, shall forfeit such opium, or prep
aration 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 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 physic an or surgeon
who shall sell, prescribe o 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 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 sum OF not less than twenty-fye
nor more than one hundred dollars; and
if he shall violate this Act more than
once ne 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 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 one-half pound tin the same
shall be destroyed.
SECTION 6. The Board of Health shall
as soon as practicable sell all confscated
opium OF 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