III. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said License or Licenses shall be granted to the highest bidders for the same respectively, to be ascertained by Public Auction, or by tenders to be sent in, in pursuance of public notice to that effect, and on such conditions relative to the giving of security for the payment of the sum tendered, and for the maintenance of good order, and the prevention of riots or disturbances among the persons engaged in the Salt Trade, or on the premises of persons retailing or selling Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Pau, Betel, and Betel Leaf, under such License or Licenses within the said Colony of Hongkong or its Dependencies, or the waters thereof, and subject to such other regulations in all respects as from time to time to His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, may seem fit.
Penalties imposed on unlicensed dealers.
Power reserved to the Governor in Council to make regulations from time to time.
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any person, without having obtained such license as aforesaid, shall exercise or carry on the trade or occupation of weighing Salt within the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or the waters thereof, or shall sell, barter, or retail Opium in any quantity less than one Chest, or sell, barter, or retail Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, in any quantity less than may be so determined on in Council as aforesaid, or shall infringe any of the Regulations after public notice thereof, from time to time to be established by the Governor in Council under the authority of this Ordinance, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 500 Dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before any Magistrate of Police, and in default of the said penalty being duly paid after conviction, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, and if there be no sufficient distress, every such offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six Calendar months.
V. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor in Council to make further regulations from time to time to make such further regulations or orders as to him shall seem fit, respecting the weighing or brokerage of Salt, or the sale of Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, with the power to enforce the same by such penalties as shall seem expedient, provided always, that such penalties shall not exceed those hereinbefore imposed.
VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, to make hereafter all such rules and regulations for the farming, selling, and retailing of Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, and that in the making and enforcing of such rules and regulations, he shall be vested with all and singular the powers and authority hereby vested in him with respect to the selling, farming, and retailing of Opium.
Auctioneer, or license for such purposes.
VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, that no person shall exercise or carry on the trade or occupation of a Pawnbroker, or of an Auctioneer, or shall keep a public Billiard Table, without having previously obtained a license from the Governor of Hongkong for the time being in Council, which shall endure for the space of one year from the date thereof; provided always, that every person taking out a Pawnbroker's or an Auctioneer's license, or a license 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 license or licenses.
Under penalty not exceeding $200
VIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any person shall, without having obtained such licenses 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 and sale of his goods and chattels,
Discretionary power to levy an Auction Duty of 2 per cent on all sales.
IX. 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 2 per cent on all sales by Auction within this Colony.
the books being liable to inspection.
X. 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,
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