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Can surely not be considered excessive
Obvious
755
is inconsistent
with iii
If it is desired to check
and
the manufacture of bad spirit it were possible to do so by raising the licence fee, why was it
not much sooner raised. Sir J. Hemming
will probably
take credit for having given Jardine, Matheson & Co. time.
But there is nothing
to show that raising the licence fee
would have the desired effect/result,
efficient to stop the
smuggling of
imported spirits
not
now hand-writing
I have until
to look into the circumstances of the
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passing of the Ordinance of 1894
Whereby the Governor is
empowered to licence the distillation
of spirits in Hong Kong. I find that there is absolutely nothing
written in the correspondence
nor
in the proceedings of the Executive and
Legislative Council
to define precisely the object of the provisions of the
Ordinance
given in
The whole story
is told in
the report of the Attorney
General to the effect that the
Ordinance of 1844 prohibited the distillation of spirits. That the Hong Kong Distillery was
Dec.