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"beer" includes ale, porter, stout, cider, perry, spruce beer, black beer and any other kind of beer and extends to any liquor made or sold as beer or as a substitute for beer;
"Chinese type spirits" means intoxicating spirits made by the distillation of rice, molasses or millet up to and including a strength of alcohol by volume at 60° Fahrenheit of fifty-eight per cent for rice and molasses spirit and seventy per cent for millet spirit which in the opinion of the Director are commonly consumed by Chinese. "denatured spirit" means liquor so mixed with any substance as to render the mixture in the opinion of the Government Chemist not liable to duty under this Ordinance: subject to the provisions of section 64 liquor to which has been added not less than-
(a) to every hundred gallons of liquor, half a gallon of crude pyridine of a quality approved by the Government Chemist, if coloured to his satisfaction with methyl-violet; or
(b) an equal quantity, bulk for bulk, of Chinese vinegar containing
not less than two per cent of acetic acid,
shall be deemed to be denatured spirits: "European type wines" means wines or wine-substitutes which, in the opinion of the Director, are of a type commonly consumed by Europeans, whether made by a process of fermentation of the expressed juice of fruits or otherwise, and includes medicated wines. "gallon" means the Imperial gallon or six reputed quart bottles or twelve
reputed pint bottles;
“intoxicating liquors" includes spirits, liqueurs, wines, beer, Chinese type
spirits and all other liquors fit or intended for use as a beverage; "liquor". "alcoholic liquor" or "spirituous liquor" means any liquid except denatured spirits which contains more than two per cent of proof spirit;
"Non-European type wines" means all wines or wine-substitutes not being European type wines whether made by a process of fermenta- tion of the expressed juice of fruits or otherwise and includes medicated wines;
"original gravity" in relation to beer means the specific gravity, at 60°
Fahrenheit, of the worts before fermentation;
"over proof" and "under proof" shall be construed by reference 10 a scale at which one hundred degrees denotes the strength of proof spirit, and
(a) one buodred and one degrees, or one degree over proof, denotes the strength of spirits which would have the alcoholic strength of proof spirit if there were added thereto such quantity of
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distilled water as would increase by one per cent the volume of the spirits computed as at 60° Fahrenheit; and so in propor- tion for any other number of degrees;
(6) ninety-nine degrees, or one degree under proof, denotes the strength of spirits which would have the alcoholic strength of proof spirits if there were removed therefrom such quantity of distilled water as would reduce by one per cent the volume of the spirits computed as at 60° Fahrenheit; arkl so in proportion for any other number of degrees:
"pint bottle" and “quart bottle” mean respectively the reputed pint and
quart bottles ordinarily used in commerce:
"proof spirit" means a mixture of ethyl alcohol and water containing 49.28 per cent alcohol by weight, or, ar 60° Fahrenheit. 57.10 per cent alcohol by volume;
"retail" in relation to the sale of liquors means sale in quantities not exceeding two gallons at one time: a sale with an understanding that any quantity in excess of two gallons is to be returned is nevertheless a retail sale;
"wholesale" in relation to the sale of liquors means sale by the unopened cask, jar or case, in quantities exceeding two gallons of one liquor at one time: a licence to sell liquor wholesale on specified premises does not authorize sale for consumption on those premises.
death or
54. (1) In case of the death or insolvcacy of the holder of a licence Provision to which this section applies, his executor or administrator or trustee for case of may carry on the business on the licensed premises until the expiration insolvency of the liccoce, subject in every respect to the same regulations and con- of licensee. ditions as the licensee.
(2) This section shall apply to brewery, distillery, dealers' and retailers' licences.
name, etc.
55. Every person licensed to sell liquors retail shall have his full Licensee name, the nature and number of bis licence, and such other particulars to exhibit as may be prescribed by regulations, painted legibly and permanently in letters at least three inches high on some conspicuous part of his licensed premises to the satisfaction of the Director: and no person nol so licensed shall exhibit any sign, writing, painting or other mark reasonably calculated to suggest that his premises are licensed for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors, or that such liquors are retailed or served therein.
56. Every person licensed under this Ordinance to sell liquor shall Measures sell and dispose of his liquors by measures or weights of the standards or weights in use in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less of liquor,
for sale