THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 7, 1921.
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(e) $1.50 a gallon with the addition of ten cents for every one per centum above 55% of alcohol by weight on any native liquor contain- ing above 55% of alcohol by weight.
(f) $0.20 cents per gallon on all native liquor distilled in the New Territories, not including New Kowloon and the Island of Cheung Chau, for consumption 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 Government 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 appropriate 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, New Kowloon, or Cheung Chau, provided that any licensee of a distillery who desires to send such liquor to Hongkong, New Kowloon, or Cheung Chau, may be granted a permit to do so, upon payment of the duties charged in Hongkong, New Kowloon, or Cheung Chau.
(3.) On intoxicating liquors, other than spirits of wine, arrack, and native wines and spirits, stored in a general bonded or licensed warehouse at the date of the passing of this resolution, imported into, distilled, made, or prepared in the Colony above the strength of 18° under proof there shall be paid an additional duty of 8 cents for every degree above such strength in the case of brandy, and of 7 cents for every degree above such strength in the case of any other liquor.
The Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provisions of Section 41 (1) of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, on the 1st day of March, 1916, and published in the Gazette of the said 1st day of March, 1916, as Government Notification No. 90, is hereby cancelled.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
7th April, 1921.
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S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils.
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