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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Rules and Regulations, made by the Governor in Council, in pursuance of Section XVIII of Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, are published for general information.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Sir Richard Graves Macdowell

Acting Plonist Secretary;

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th September, 1868.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Made by the Governor în Council, this 12th Day of September, 1868, in pursuance of Section XVIII of Ordinance No. 9 of 1867.

1. No Person shall keep any House, Room, Boat, or Vessel, or any place on Land or Water for Public Playing or Gambling, or shall permit any Person to Play within such House, Room, Boat, or Vessel, or any place on Land or Water, except in such places as are Licensed by the Governor in Council; and every such License so granted shall be revocable at the will and pleasure of the Officer administering the Government, and shall be subject to such limitations as the Officer administering the Government shall impose.

2. In the City of Victoria there shall not be more than Twelve of such Houses Licensed for Public Gambling, and not more than One such House in Aberdeen, Stanley, and Show-kee-wan respectively, nor more than One such House at Kowloon,

3. Each House before being Licensed, must be approved as suitable by the Surveyor General, or the Assistant Surveyor General, and each House shall not have more than One means of ingress and egress, and there shall be no means of escape by the roof.

4. Each Licensed House shall have One Registered Proprietor, who shall be responsible for the proper conduct of the establishment under his charge, and such Registered Proprietor shall never sublet without the permission in writing of the Officer administering the Government, or himself pay any sum to any other party on account of the profits receivable from such Licensed House.

5. The Registered Proprietors of Licensed Houses having any representation to make to, or any business to transact with, the Government must do so by personal application to the Registrar General, as no attention will be paid to memorials or representations coming through third parties.

6. No party holding a License from the Government under these Regulations or having an Interest in any such License shall be at liberty to throw up his License or relieve himself from the obligations entailed thereby unless he shall give at least One Clear Month's Notice to the Registrar General of his intention so to do.

7. The Captain Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Assistant Superintendent of Police, and the Registrar General, and any Persons authorised by the Officer administering the Government to visit and inspect the Licensed Houses shall, at all hours of the day and night, have access to the

said Licensed Houses.

8. For each Licensed House there shall be issued a Monthly License, and there shall be paid in advance such Monthly fee as may be directed by the Governor, and in addition there shall be deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum equal to the fees for One Month as a security for compliance with these Regulations, and the whole or any part of the sums so deposited shall be liable to forfeiture for the use of the Colonial Government at any time at the will and pleasure of the Officer administering the Government.

9. The Officer administering the Government may at any time order any or all Licensed Gambling Houses to be closed either summarily and at once, or after such notice as the said Officer administering the Government may direct, and in every case of a House being closed for breach of Regulations then so long as any Licensed House or Houses remain open, the Officer administering the Government, for the purpose of preventing such irregularity operating to the advantage of any holder of a Gambling License, may direct the Monthly fees payable for the remaining Licenses to be so increased that the total amount of fees receivable by the Government shall remain unaltered.

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