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Spirit. Licences granted to Chinese,

which the Chinese Shops

by

placeh

Mi

were

the same forting as the

Public house kept and frequented by Europeans.

5. Under Ordinance - 1/1 of 18444

it was

forbidden to keep a Shop in

the house wherein Spirits

wwere

this prohibition, though reccesorry

the onse

on

CALL

of

sold;

in

the European, ofell severely

the Chinaman, who

LiveL

engages

in the sole business of a Spirit. dealer, but invariably joins it to

that

of

a

Chandler on some like

trade. Among the liecused

Chincu Spirit dealers there was

probably not one who did not keep in addition a Chandler's Shop, and thus liable to the penalties

Was

the Ordinance.

6. It

wa

of

further thought advicable

to adopt a monthly payment of

Fee

from

the

there Spirit dealers in the

came way as from the Opinen dealers, their small scalls

rendering it a hardship to pay the yearly Fee at

one time.

7. Carefully weighing these two subjects I came to the conclusion that fresh regulation for the retail of Opium and Spirits should be.

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