THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 17, 1911.
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All such liquor shall contain not more than 45% of alcohol by weight. (4.) $0.70 cents a gallon on the native liquor known as Fan Tsau, if containing 50% or under of alcohol by weight, with the addition of two cents for every one per centum between 50% and 55% of alcohol by weight. (e.) $1.00 a gallon with the addition of eight cents for every one per centum above 55% of alcohol by weight on any native liquor containing above 55% of alcohol by weight.
(7.) $0.05 cents per gallon on all native liquor distilled in the New Territories, not including New Kowloon and the Island of Cheung Chau, for consump- tion in the said Territories.
Further resolved that-
(1.) On native wines and spirits declared or labelled as belonging to any of the above divisions the appropriate duty therein laid down shall be paid except that on any native liquor however declared or labelled found by the Govern- ment Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint in that behalf to contain more alcohol than is permitted in the division to which it is declared or labelled as belonging there shall be paid the appropriate duty of the division in which the amount of alcohol found has placed it: each division in such case shall represent native liquor of the limit of strength in alcohol therein stated and irrespective of any definition or description of such liquor, and on any native wines and spirits not declared or labelled as belonging to any division there shall be paid the duty approprite to the division in which the amount of alcohol found by the Government Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint on that behalf has placed it.
(2.) Stills in the New Territories (not including New Kowloon and the Island of Cheung Chau) shall be prohibited from sending liquor produced in these stills to Hongkong or to New Kowloon: provided that any licensee of a distillery who desires to send such liquer to Hongkong or New Kowloon may be granted a permit to do so, upon payment of the duties charged in Hongkong or New Kowloon.
(3.) On intoxicating liquors, other than spirits of wine, arrack and native wines and spirits, imported into, distilled, made or prepared in the Colony above proof strength there shall be paid an additional duty of 4 cents for every degree above proof in the case of brandy, 3 cents for ev ry degree above proof in the case of whisky, and 2 cents for every degree above proof in the case of any other liquor.
The Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provisions of Section 3 (1) of the Liquors Ordinance, 1999, on the 2nd day of December, 1909, (published in the Government Gazette of the 3rd day of December, 1909, Government Notification No. 769), is hereby cancelled.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
16th March, 1911.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils,
No. 63.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :--
Ordinance No. 4 of 1911.--An Ordinance to prohibit the use of Dynamite or other Explosives for the purpose of catching or des- troying Fish.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1911. —An Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordinance,
1900.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1911.—An Ordinance to amend the Harbour of Refuge Ordin-
nuce, 1909.
Ordinance No. 7 of 1911- An Ordinance to introduce into the Criminal Law
Ordinances of 1865 certain provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Acts of the United Kingdom of 1861, and for other purposes.