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THE LIQUOR LICENSES ORDINANCE, 1898.

Rating Hauer Liecme, (Sec. 32).

Name of Licenisce

Business

Sign of House (if any)

Aditrees

Period of License frota

Linense the person above noed, daring the period above se forth. to keep an ending house, or ceffer house, de, for as the cas maybe) at the above nïentioned pr uises.

No intoxicating liquors shall be sold on such painises.

Hongkong,

18

Caloniai Beef:tary.

Warning-The keeper shall aut knowingly or wilfully permit disorderly cndact on his premises, or knowingly suffer ang ilawful games or gaming thereis, or knowingly permit te suffer any prosti- inie to frequent such premises or to remain therein.

Nate.-There may be added such other conditions (if any) to this License as the Governor in Coucil may from time to time determine.

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SCHEDULE OF FEES.

The following fees shall be paid for the Licenses iureinafter usa- tioned, nad in the ruuter specified, that is to BAY -

Distillery License (sec. 4)....$150 Temporary Liccuse (soc. 8) at the diseration

of the Governor.....

Public-house License and Adjunct License,

respectively, (s02. 18);—

When the annual valuation of the pre-

mises occupied Is

under $1,000 a ficurese fue of...$300 $1,000 or over, but under 84,2000

aliense fee of.. $4,200 or over, a license fee ul...Stay Removal License (sec. 18)

How payable.

Aunnally, in adven

In mishre.

Annually, in advance,

subject, however, to the

..SBAU

brovisions of sec. 14.

..$ 9

Far advance.

-If the new premises are ut a higher annual valuation than those from which the License is removed a proportionate part of the extra foo (if any) payable in respect of such difference of valua tion must also be paal,

Transfer of a Publjean's or Adjunct

License (see. 16)............................

..$10

In rates.

Wholesale License (sce. 28)

..S240

Grover's License (sec. 18)

$246

Aumvally, in advance. Annually, in wivance.

Chinese Wine and Spirit Shop License

(sec. BU).....

8150

Payable in quarterly

instalments, in al-

YANGA

Chibuse Restaurant License (see. B1)......... When the annual valuation of the pre-

Annually, in advance.

mises occupied is--

weler $500, a license fee of

$500 or more but under $2,000,

a license fee of............

over $2,000, a beast fe of ......$£6

10

Eating-honses (where

intoxicating!

quors are sold) (sec. 32).

$150

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ENCLOSURE 2

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Rea? 24 GUT 06

Attorney General's Office.

13th.September, 1898.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO.24 OF 1898.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, en-

"An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law

relating to Intoxicating Liquor Licenses",

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and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not

contrary to the Governor's Instructions.

Annually, in advance.

This Ordinance, while reproducing substantially the provisions of Ordinance No. 21 of 1886, as amended by Ordinance No. 11 of 1894, endeavours to remedy sonie defects and omissions which experience has shown to exist in the law relating to Spirit Licenses.

The Ordinance of 1886 provided no license for the whole- sale sale of Chinese wines and spirits, apparently through inadvertence, nor was any provision made for the sale of Chinese wines. Then, again, no suitable license was pro- vided for Chinese restaurants, while the question as to what were the rights (if any) of auctioneers selling for unlicensed principals or upon unlicensed premises, was left untouched. The question is now decided by the pre- sent Ordinance, and the solution is based on the experience gained in England. A reference to the Acts, 6 George 4 cap. 81 sec. 8, 8 Vist. cap. 15 sec. 6, and 27 and 28 Vict., rap 50 sec. 14, shows the history of the matter in the mother country, and section 34 of this Ordinance mainly topts the English law, with the necessary local modifica-

tions,

The

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