ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1844.
Licensing Public Houses, &c.
do hereby certify that the above A. B. of
is a person of good fame and reputation and fit and proper to be licensed to keep an inn or public house.
Witness our hands, this
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day of
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Form of Certificate by the Chief Magistrate to authorize the granting of a License.
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HONGKONG.
At the licensing meeting (or an adjournment of the licensing meeting or sessions) holden at
on the
day of
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty
for the purpose of considering applications made to me for licenses to keep public houses, in pursuance of an ordinance of the Governor and Council intituled "An Act for licensing Public Houses, and regulating the retail of fermented, and spirituous liquors, in Hongkong" I
do hereby authorize the Colonial Treasurer to issue a license to A. B. of
to keep an inn, or public house at the sign of
situated in
for the year commencing on the
day of
and I do hereby certify that I am satisfied the said A. B. is a person of good fame, and reputation, and is fit and proper to keep any inn or public house and also that I have taken from the said A. B. and his sureties C. D. of
and E. F. of
each according to the form prescribed by the said ordinance of the Governor and Council.
Given under my hand and seal on the
day of
and at
Hongkong to wit
Be it remembered, that on the
(C).
Form of a Recognizance.
A. B. of
came personally before me
Chief Magistrate of Police in the Colony of Hongkong and acknowledged themselves to owe to Our Lady the Queen, to wit the said A. B. the sum of
of lawful current dollars of Hongkong to be respectively levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of our said Lady the Queen Her Heirs and Successors: in case default shall be made in the performance of any of the conditions hereunder written :—
The conditions of this recognizance are such, that whereas the said A. B. is to be licensed to keep common-inn, ale-house, or victualling-house, and to sell ale, beer, and other malt liquors, and wine,
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