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ORDINANCES Nos. 9 AND 10 OF 1875.
Naval Stores.
Legislative Commissioners.
The following are the regulations which are continued in force by the above Order in Council:-
1. The fee for each licence to use or exercise the trade or business of a dealer in marine stores, or a dealer in old metals, shall be $15 per mensem, payable in advance.
2. All persons who shall trade or deal in marine stores, or old metals, shall have their names with the words "Dealer in Marine Stores, or Old Metals," painted distinctly, in letters not less than 3 inches in length, on a board to be hung up conspicuously in front of their shops.
3. The said houses may only be open, from the 1st October to the 1st April, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.; and from the 1st April to the 1st October, from 5 A.M. to 7 P.M.
4. No article of metal, or any marine store, shall be purchased from a child apparently under 14 years of age.
5. The name of every seller, the house number, and district in which he dwells, together with an intelligible description of the article and time at which it was sold, with price paid, shall be entered in the books of the shop, which shall be kept in such form and manner as may, from time to time, be directed by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
6. No escapes through the roof of a licensed house shall be allowed.
7. The proprietor of each licensed house shall be held responsible for any breach of these regulations, or of the Ordinance.
Title.
[See Ordinances Nos. 6 and 17 of 1889.]
Preamble.
Authority to Governor to appoint commissioners to compile and print the laws of Hongkong.
Commissioners to prepare and arrange Laws for publication and
No. 10 of 1875.
An Ordinance for compiling a new Edition of the Ordinances of the Colony.
[2nd September, 1875.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to prepare a new edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong omitting all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances that have expired, have had their effect, or have been expressly repealed or disallowed:-Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. It shall be lawful for the Governor to issue his commission to any two or more persons directing and empowering them to prepare a new edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong, and, from time to time, in case of the death, refusal, or incapacity to act of any of the said commissioners, to issue a supplemental commission empowering some other person to act in the stead of such commissioner.
2. The commissioners are hereby authorised to prepare and arrange for publication the said edition, omitting all such Ordinances, sections, and parts of Ordinances