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Penalty 200 Dols.
Auction duty of 24 per cent.
Auctioneer to make quarterly Returns on Oath and deduct Auction duties.
Table of Official fees to be levied after the passing of this Ordinance.
date thereof; provided always that every person taking out a Pawnbroker's or an Auctioneer's licence, or licence for a public billiard table, shall pay into the Colonial Treasury such sums as to His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may seem fit; the said sums to be paid previous to the granting of such licence or licences.
8. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall, without having obtained such licence as aforesaid, carry on or exercise the trade or occupation of a Pawnbroker or Auctioneer, or keep a public Billiard Table, or either or any of them; or shall be convicted of exposing for sale or putting up anything whatever to public Auction, or of taking anything whatever in pawn, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 200 dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before any Police Magistrate; and in default of payment, the same to be levied by distress of his goods and chattels.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained that the Governor in Council, if he see fit, shall be empowered to levy an Auction duty of 24 per cent on all sales by Auction within this Colony.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained that every person who shall act as an Auctioneer in the said Colony shall make and give at the Office of the Colonial Secretary, once in every three months, a faithful and true Return on oath of all the sums received at sales made by him as Auctioneer within the said three months; and that every such Auctioneer shall from every sum received by him on the sale of any article by him in that capacity deduct the sum sanctioned under this Ordinance, and pay the amount thereof into the Colonial Treasury quarterly; and it is hereby declared that any such Auctioneer failing duly to comply with the provisions of this Section shall be considered to have forfeited his licence, and such licence shall be absolutely void by such neglect or default.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained that the following Official fees, as set forth in the annexed table, shall be levied and made payable from and after the passing of this Ordinance; all fees so levied to be paid into the Colonial Treasury.
TABLES OF FEES TO BE LEVIED AS FOLLOWS:--
For granting a Marriage Licence $5
For the signature of the Governor 4.45
For the signature of the Colonial Secretary 2
A fee amounting to 4 per cent on the annual value or salary of any Commissions or appointments by His Excellency the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 20th day of November, 1844.
A. E. SHELLEY, Clerk of Councils,
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Governor, &c. &c.
Hongkong Published by Authority, and Printed by John Carr.
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Day Lords,
Vidett for. 125.19 July 1846
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16. May 1845.
I am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you, herewith, to be laid before the Earl of Aberdeen, a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hongkong
Covering a copy of
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Ordinance "for licensing the sale of Salt, Spirits, Ganja, Opium, and Betel Leaf within the Colony of Hongkong.