ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1853.
Spirits Opium.
9. No person shall receive in exchange or pledge for opium sold by retail, any article of clothing or implement of trade, or other such thing but only the current coin of this Colony.
10. Any Magistrate on being credibly informed that any spirituous liquor or opium is in any ship, boat or place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or having been unlawfully imported may issue his warrant to search such place and bring before him such liquor or opium, and may adjudge to be forfeited to the Crown any opium or liquor so found that appears to him to have been in such place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or to have been unlawfully imported and the proof that such opium or liquor was in such place lawfully and for a lawful purpose shall lie upon the person in whose possession or on whose premises such opium or liquor was found.
11. The fees charged on licences shall be those laid down in schedule C.
12. If a licensed person shall omit to pay at the appointed time the fee due upon his licence, any Justice of the Peace, on complaint made, may levy the amount due by sale of the property of the defaulter.
13. This Ordinance shall not apply to licences now in force.
14. The penalties and forfeitures in this Ordinance may be adjudged by any Magistrate of Police or any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
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Opium to be exchanged for money only.
Search warrant may be granted for seizure of liquor or opium intended to be unlawfully retailed.
What fees to be charged.
Fees not paid may be levied by distress.
Not to apply to existing licences.
Penalties how recoverable.
SCHEDULE A.
No.
LICENCE TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO CHINESE ONLY.
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, Hongkong,
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[A.B.] of [insert the applicant's native place,] [insert the calling of the applicant,] is hereby licensed to retail spirituous liquors to Chinese only, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 on the premises known as [insert the number of the house, name of the street, and description of the premises.]
This licence will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on..
on the
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A fee of dollars is to be paid at the Colonial Treasury
day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the defaulter.
If spirituous liquor be sold to any other person than a Chinese the licence holder will incur a penalty not exceeding $100, and for a second offence his licence may in addition be annulled.
Countersigned [B. F]
Chief Magistrate.
On the day of
[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]
[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.
185. received the fee of $9,
[G. H.] Colonial Treasurer.