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tAuditor

General, absent on leave.

"The Council meets this day, at 2. P. Me.,

pursuant to adjournment-

The Meinutes of the Council held

Instant,

are

read and

confirmed.

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Secretary is then requreated to give fumblicity

to the above Notice, which is as

follows:-

Notice is hereby given that this Government is prepared to receive Tenders for the Honses to be Licensed for Public Gambling in this Colony.

The Monthly Fees are fixed at $13,840, and the Licensees will be bound by the Rules and Regulations made by the Governor in Council, on and since the 12th September, 1868, and of which, Copies can be obtained from the Registrar General's Office, and by such other Rules as may from time to time be adopted by the Governor in Council.

Persons tendering must hand in to the Registrar General on or before Noon of the 24th instant, a List shewing the Names, Occupations, and Residences of all those proposing to share in the Licenses. Due enquiry having been then made, those not considered valid or satisfactory will be set aside by the Governor in Council, and lots will then be drawn among the remaining competitors.

The successful Tenderer will take charge of the Licensed Houses on the 1st proximo.

By Command,

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 14th January, 1870. #

CECIL C. SMITH,

Registrar General. ↳

"His Excelleney The Governor lays

Fable a

the

Draught Notice which had been

prepared by the Honorable beel lon

Smith, calling for Tenders for the Licensing

Houses in Hongkong,

and the

of Gaming Game is revised and approved, the monthly Fees for the Laicenses being fixed at

$13,340.

"The Honorable the Colonial

The Rules and Regulations for the control Licensed

Gaming Houses, which passed the Council on the 12 September 1868, are then

laid

on the Table and revised; and it appearing

that the Exclusion of Women from such Hocuses,

2.5.0. 1893) though virtually in practice by order of Heis

since the 26 July 1889, - had not

Excellency

as

3 yet.

been made the subject of a special: