Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-23
SMUGGLING WILL Be ENDED
Entire Opium Traffic Turned Over to the
Board Of Health.
No More PerquiSiteS for The Police and Their
InlOrmerS- Full Text Of the New
Opium Bill.


country primarily In the Board
of Health, which distributes it to
the various districts in quantities
needed. In each district there is
an Opium Board which grants
permits to smoke opium the same
as the Board of Health is now
doing. To those obtaining these
permits opium is supplied daily
in email doses at a price which
etfectuaIly puts an end to SNUG
pliug. Tie bill also repaals the
Act under which the police and
.nforwers receive balf the fines
imposed on opium smokers, and
puts an end to the business of
putting up jobs on innocent
Chinese.
A prominent Chinese merchant
to whom the bill was submitted
for consideration, said at once
that if it went into effect it would
put an end to smuggling and
close the doors of every Chinese
opium joint in the city.
The full text of the bill i.
printed below, omitting only
those sections which repeal all
former legislation on tie subject:
Section l. The importation and
sale of opium or any preparation
th -ra"f, eyceDt as by Tbs Act pro-
vi6ed, is hereby strictly prohib-
tied. And any person who shall
import, sell, give or furnish
op" or ary pr"pa'a'i0r 'harP"f
10 any person in the Republic of
Hawaii, except as provided by the
provisions of this Act, shall be liza.
hle to a prDaly OF not less thau
Five Hundred Dollars nor NOR,
than Two Thousand Dollars aud
be imprisoned at hard labor for
any term not less than one month
nor more than two years.
Section 2. The Board of
Health may from time to time i'm
port opium or preparations there
of in such quantities as the said
Board shall deem necessary, which
opium or preparations thereof or
any part or portion of such opium
or preparations thereof shall b.
entered at any Custom Hpuse in
the republic of Hawaii that may
be designated by the said Board
of Health.
Section 3. The Government
physician, the District Magistrate
and the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff
Of each Judicial District shall be
and are hereby constituted a
Board to be known or designated
as the Opium Board, whose duties
shall be to issue permits for the
use and smoking of opium to every
person residing in such Judicial
District who shall cause his or her
name to be enrolled on list to be-
kept for that purpose by said
Board, as user of, or an opium
smoker. Upon the enrolment of
such PERSONS name as user of,
or an opium smoker upon the list
for the district of which he is a
resident, he shall receive from
said Board permit to smoke or
use opium for a period not to ex
ceed one year. Such permit shall
only allow the smoking or using
of opium in the Judicial District
in which such smoker has his per-
manent place of residence.
Section 4. The Board of Health
shall furnish to each Government
physician of each of the Judicial
Districts of the Republic,
opium or preparations
thereof in such quantities as
they, in their discretion, think
sufficient for use in such District.
Section 5. A member of the
Opium Board to be designated by
the Board of Health shall sell
and furnish to all persons in his
Judicial District who have caused
their names to be registered, and
who have obtained, and present
the permit provided for in Section
3 of this Act, not more than fifty
grains of opium at any one time
provided, however, that no person
shall be furnished and sold opium
twice on the same day. Any Gov
ernment Physician or member OF
the Opium Board who shall sell
or furnish opium 10 any person
not having registered and obtain
ed the permit provided for in Sec.