ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1844.
Licensing Public Houses, &c.
cider, ginger beer, spruce beer, brandy, rum, and other fermented and spirituous liquors, in the house, wherein he (or she) now dwells (or is about to dwell) being the sign of situated at day of if the said A. B. do keep the for twelve months, commencing on the one thousand eight hundred and forty- law in selling ale, beer, and other such liquors as aforesaid in his (or her) said house or appurtenances thereunto belonging: and do not permit any person to become drunk, or supply, or permit such liquor as aforesaid to be supplied or given to any person in a state of intoxication, or permit such person (not being an inmate thereof) to remain in his (or her) house or premises and do not permit any person to play at cards dice or any other game of chance in his (or her) house or premises or to commit any disorder therein or to remain in or upon the same tippling or drinking after the hour of at night or on Sunday at any hour, always excepting moderate refreshment to persons who may be bond fide travelling or who may be inmates of the house; nor suffer any disorder to be committed in his or her) house or premises; nor refuse to admit a Magistrate, or constable into any part of the said house or premises at any hour and do maintain good order and rule therein, then the said recognizance to be void, otherwise to remain in full force.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year above written before me,
(D.)
Form of License.
L. S.
Hongkong to wit
Whereas A. B. of Chief Magistrate of Police eight hundred and forty- or public house at the sign of hath deposited in this office a certificate from the dated the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand authorizing a license to be issued to the said A. B. to keep an inn, situated at and stating that the said Chief Magistrate of Police has taken from the said A. B. and two sureties a recognizance in the sum of each as required by law, and whereas the said A. B. hath paid into my office the sum of as the duty on such license now I the Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of Hongkong in virtue of the powers vested in me by Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 of the Governor and Council do hereby license authorize and empower the said A. B. to keep a common inn, ale-house, or victualling-house, and to sell and retail in the house in which he (or she) now dwelleth (or is about to dwell) being the sign of situated at and in the appurtenances thereunto belonging but not elsewhere all beer, and other malt liquors, or wine, cider, ginger beer, spruce beer, brandy, rum, or other fermented, or spirituous liquors, and this license shall continue in force from the said day of until the day of next ensuing both days inclusive and no longer, and also provided it be not forfeited in the meantime according to the provisions of the aforesaid ordinance of the Governor and Council.
Given under my hand and seal at Victoria this one thousand eight hundred and forty- day of
Registered P. Q.
N. 0.
L. S.
Colonial Treasurer.