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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH JUNE, 1886.
Removal of business.
(11 of 44. 11.)
Sign. Produc- tion of Licence. (11 of 44, 13.)
Regulations (Sec. 11 of 44.
13 and Sche- dule.)
Forfeiture of recognisances. (II of 44. 15.)
Action on account of liquors.
(fl of 44. 17.)
Taking pledges.
(11 of 44. 18.)
Measures.
(11 of 44, 19.)
Suspected premises.
(11 of 44. 85.)
18. The Justices may permit the business licensed under a public house or adjunct licence to be removed to other premises if they shall be satisfied that the applica- tion to remove such business (which shall be by written memorial) may reasonably be granted. The licensee shall enter into new recognisances, and shall receive a new certificate entitling him to a new licence for the remainder of his term on payment of a fee of five dollars.
19. Every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall have his full name painted in legible letters at least three inches long, with the words Licensed to retail Wines and Spirits, constantly and permanently remaining, and plainly to be seen and read, on some conspicuous part of his house, and no person not actually holding a public house licence or adjunct licence (except the keeper of a spirit shop as hereinafter provided) shall keep up any sign, writing, painting, or other mark, which may imply or give reasonable cause to believe that his premises are licensed for retail or barter of intoxicating liquors, or that such liquors are sold, served, or retailed therein.
20. The business of every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall be carried on subject to the following Regu- lations: *
(1.) No liquor shall be sold or drunk on the premises licensed except between such hours as the Magis- trate shall enter on the certificate to be granted under clause 12.
(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 pre-
mises.
(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 premises, nor shall he 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 fine imposed on such offender, not exceeding the amount of his recognisances, be paid by his sureties.
22. No licensed publican shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of liquors, unless such debt shall bonâ fide have been contracted 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 bona 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 seaman or soldier in Her Majesty's service for liquors be allowed: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent innkeepers from keeping an account with lodgers and travellers, in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.
23. No licensed person shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever except money.
24. Every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures 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 such liquor 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