The Ordinance of 1886 defined retail sale, as sale in lest quantities than two gallons, while the Adjunct License (form J) spoke of retailing in quantities not exceeding two gallons. The present Ordinance defines retail sales as those in quantities not exceeding two gallons.
The defects previously mentioned have been remedied in the present Ordinance and a Form of Eating-House License had been added
It is not clear why eating-houses for Chinese customers only should have been exempted from the fee of $10, which had to be paid by others, an exemption made by Order of the Governor in Council, of 23rd July, 1886. The object of requiring a license is to prevent disorder and facilitate proper regulation, and the present Ordinance treats all eating-houses alike where no intoxicating liquors are sold and reduces the fee to $5.
Under the Ordinance of 1886 the prescribed fees were sometimes stated in the body of the Ordinance as well as in the Schedule. This is au inconvenient course as seen by the amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1894, In the pre- seat Ordinance the fees are specified in one of the Schedules, and this facilitates alteration should it at any time become
necessary.
Chinese Wines and Spirits come within the definition of Intoxicating liquor; and, to prevent doubts which arose from time to time under Ordinance No. 21 of 1880, care has been taken to insert in those licences which do not authorize the sale of Chinese Wines and Spirits words excepting such wines and spirits. This has been done in the case of the ordinary Publican's license, but not in the case of the Adjunet license where no public bar is kept. So, also, in the case of the Grocer's license, the exception has been made, for the Chinese Wine and Spirit Shop license is the license appropriate for sales of Chinese Wines and Spirits.
In the case of the Chinese Restaurant license, no excep- tion has been made, so that the law will not prevent those Chinese who prefer European liquors with their meals obtaining them from the Chinese restaurant they frequent ur from which they have any meals sent to them.
Various minor verbal amendments have been made and sume additional headings provided to facilitate reference to the subject matter of the various sections, and it is trust- ed the Ordinance will meet the difficulties experienced in the present law, while preserving so much of it as has been fomal to work well in practice.
W. MEJOR GOODMAN, Alturney Generai.
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