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Penalties imposed III. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if from for the infringe and after the time limited for this Ordinance to come into of this Ordinance. operation and effect, any unlicensed person or persons shall sell, vend, barter, or retail Cigars, Cheroots, Snuff, or Tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, in less quantities or weights at a time than as above prescribed and mentioned, he or they, for every such offence, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before any Magistrate of Police, and in default of said penalty being paid after conviction, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, and if there be no sufficient distress, every such offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one Calendar month. Provided always, that in case any such conviction shall take place and be had on the evidence of any common or public informer, he or she shall be entitled to one moiety of said penalty.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c., &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this seventh day of July, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
She thus Challen
Clerk of Councils
HONGKONG:
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA MAIL
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