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Spirit. Licences granted to Chinese,
which the Chinese Shops
by
placeh
Mi
were
the same forting as the
Public house kept and frequented by Europeans.
5. Under Ordinance - 1/1 of 18444
it was
forbidden to keep a Shop in
the house wherein Spirits
wwere
this prohibition, though reccesorry
the onse
on
CALL
of
sold;
in
the European, ofell severely
the Chinaman, who
LiveL
engages
in the sole business of a Spirit. dealer, but invariably joins it to
that
of
a
Chandler on some like
trade. Among the liecused
Chincu Spirit dealers there was
probably not one who did not keep in addition a Chandler's Shop, and thus liable to the penalties
Was
the Ordinance.
6. It
wa
of
further thought advicable
to adopt a monthly payment of
Fee
from
the
there Spirit dealers in the
came way as from the Opinen dealers, their small scalls
rendering it a hardship to pay the yearly Fee at
one time.
7. Carefully weighing these two subjects I came to the conclusion that fresh regulation for the retail of Opium and Spirits should be.