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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1898.
Forfeiture
of recog- nisances.
Action on
account of liquors.
Taking pledges.
Measures.
Suspected premises.
Drinking in unlicensed place.
Payment of workmen.
(2.) No disorder shall be permitted on the premises.
(3.) No person shall be allowed to become drunk on the premises, nor shall liquor be supplied to any person. who is drunk.
(4.) No game of chance shall be played on the premises. (5.) A decent and suitable privy and urinal shall be maintained in a state of cleanliness and good repair for
the use of customers.
(6.) The licensee shall not abandon the occupation of his house, or permit any other person to become virtually the keeper thereof.
(7.) The licensee shall not employ any person to sell or dispose of any liquors outside of his licensed pre- mises, nor shall be allow or suffer any liquors to be so disposed of on his account.
21. When any licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall be charged with any offence under this Ordinance and shall not appear to answer to such charge, it shall be lawful for any Magistrate to order that the recognisance of such licensed publican or adjunct licensee be forfeited until his appearance, and in case any licensed publican or adjunct licensee be twice convicted of any offence under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order, on the second conviction, that any fiue imposed on such offender, not exceeding the amount of his recoguisances, be paid by his sureties,
22. No licensed publican or adjunet licensee shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of liquors, unless such debt shall bonâ fide have been con- tracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for liquors be allowed where the liquors bonâ fide delivered at one time shall not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor shall any amount of debt whatsoever incurred by any seamau or soldier in Her Majesty's service for liquors be allowed: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent inn- keepers from keeping an account with lodgers and travellers, in which any charge for liquors may be included, and re- Covering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.
General Provisions.
23. No person licensed under this Ordinance shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any entertain- ment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever except money.
24. Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures or weights legalised in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint, or except when the liquor is sold in bottles, and shall also measure or weigh such liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.
25. If any person be convicted of unlawfully retailing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person, and the house, lodging, shop, or warehouse where such offence shall have been committed, and any court or yard connected therewith, shall be liable to be searched at any time of the day or night, by any police officer, with or without warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof shall be occupied by the person so convicted.
26. Whenever any police officer shall find any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor shall be sold or disposed of by retail, and the license for such sale shall not on demand be produced to such police officer, it shall be lawful for such police officer to apprehend ali such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, upon summary conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person shall inform against such unlicensed person or voluntarily become a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
27. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by retail.