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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1909.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 569.
Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 55 (b) of the Liquors Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 27 of 1909), to regulate the import of intoxicating liquors by junk, this 17th
day of September, 1909.
1. Every junk as defined by the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, arriving in the Colony with any intoxicating liquors or denatured spirits on board shall at once proceed to either the Junk Anchorage, Victoria" (as defined by the regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and Ordinances amending the same) and shall not, without the special permission of the Harbour Master, anchor or moor or discharge any cargo or goods or passengers' baggage at any other place.
2. The report required (under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by later Ordinances) to be furnished by the master of every junk on arrival shall include detailed particulars of the descriptions, marks and quantities of all intoxicating liquors and denatured spirits on board the junk, and of the names of the consignees or owners of such liquors if such report contains any false or misleading statement the master shall be deemed to have committed an offence under the Liquors Ordinance, 1909.
3. No dutiable liquors or denatured spirits shall be imported in any junk of a less burden than 300 piculs.
4. No vessel or package containing any dutiable liquors or denatured spirits shall be opened on board a junk except in the presence of the Superintendent or a Revenue or Police Officer: the master of the junk as well as the person opening such vessel or package shall be responsible for any breach of this regulation.
No. 570.
Regulation made by the Governor-in-Council on the 17th day of September, 1909, under Section 55 (c) of the Liquors Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 27 of 1909), with reference to King's Ware- houses.
1. The Governor-in-Council hereby approves and appoints the Godowns at Kowloon Point and at West Point the property of the Itongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Golown Company, Limited, and the Godowns at Kowloon Point known as Holt's Wharf" the property of the Ocean Steamship Company, Limited, to be King's Warehouses for the pur- pose of the Liquors Ordinance, 1909.
2. Fr the purposes of the said Ordinance and of all Regulations made thereunder the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and Ocean Steamship Company, Limited, shall be the respective Keepers of the King's Warehouses approved and appointed under the preceding regulation, and shall be responsible for the due observance and performance of all the duties devolving upon such Keepers.
3. Every Keeper on receiving a request from the Master, owner or agent of any ship lying within the Harbour Limits as defined by the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, shall forthwith remove from such ship into a King's Warehouse all such dutiable liquors and denatured spirits as such Master, owner or agent may require to be so removed: and shall store such dutiable liquors and denatured spirits in a King's Warehouse to the order of such Master, owner or agent.
4. Every Keeper on receiving a request from any person holding a permit under the Ordinance which entitles the holder to store any dutiable liquors or denatured spirits in a King's Warehouse shall forthwith store the same in a King's Warehouse.