Enclosure 4
Resolutions.
C.O. 23 36963 RECO RECEIVED NOV 09
1. That a duty be imposed on all Foreign and Chinese Alcoholic Liquors imported and consumed in this Colony. Liquors supplied to ships in unbroken cases for consumption on board, and liquors re-exported to be exempt from duty.
2. That Arrack and Spirits of Wine be treated as Alcoholic Liquors.
3. That all licensing fees be based on a valuation of the annual turn-over of the business of the licensee.
4. That in the event of the preceding resolution being adopted the issuing of adjunct licences be discontinued.
5. That all places where liquors are sold by retail for consumption on the premises be required to take out licences.
6. That as to the method of collecting the import duties a spirit farm is undesirable.
Hongkong, 18th August, 1909.