Opium Act bilingual notice

Opium Act bilingual notice

Image Courtesy of: Leigh MacKinnon / Miles Museum

English Transcription

NOTICE.

“The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897.”

Home Secretary’s Office, Brisbane, 21st June, 1898.

TAKE NOTICE that under Section 20 of the above Act any Person who supplies or causes or permits to be supplied any Opium to an Aboriginal or a Half-caste is liable on Conviction, for the First Offence to a Penalty not exceeding £100, and not less than £20, or Three Months’ Imprisonment, and for the second and every subsequent offence to Imprisonment for any term not exceeding Six Months, and in every case to costs.

W. H. RYDER, Under Secretary.

Chinese Transcription (Traditional)

The large title text is written from right to left, while the main body text is written in vertical columns from right to left.

告示

兹昆士兰议政局立例严禁沽

售鸦片烟其与本立之例人及下

白人为此示谕倘有犯例者准照

此例第九条款议罚其初犯

罚银多不过壹佰镑至少不下

或拾镑每次案情使用照计或

监禁一个月俟后仍有不法再犯

此例应监禁六个月各宜凛

遵毋违特示