12382-1909-Bill-read-a-first-time--Liquors — Page 4

682 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909.

Denatured

spirits not to

be removed from a ship without a permit.

Conditions

of issue of permit.

Receipt by Superintend-

cut for all duty paid.

Removal of dutiable liquors for exportation,

Form of permit and endorsement by master or mate.

Permit may

be refused

antil 48

hours before ship leaves.

Dutiable

¡iquors not to be

removed for exportation except in

closed cases. Dutiable

marked for

export.

6.--(1.) No person shall remove any denatured spirits from any ship in which the same may have been imported without a permit in the Form No. 6 in the Schedule to this Ordinance and except in accordance with the conditions in such permit contained.

(2.) Such permit shall be issued by the Superintendent on the conditious stated therein upon receiving a requisition therefor in the Form No. 3 in the said Schedule and upon payment of a fee of $5 and shall not be granted except upon condition that such spirits shall be placed in a King's or licensed warehouse pending the production of proof by the master or agent of the ship or the importer of such spirits to the satisfaction of the Government Analyst or of such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint in that behalf that such spirits are denatured spirits within the meaning of this Ordinance,

7. The Superintendent shall grant a receipt in the Form No. 7 in the Schedule to this Ordinance for any sum received by him in respect of any duty upon intoxicating liquors on which duty is payable.

8.-(1.) No person intending to export dutiable liquors shall remove the same for exportation from any King's or licensed warehouse where they may be stored without a permit in the Form No. 9 in the Schedule to this Ordinance and except in accordance with the conditions in such permit contained.

(2.) Such permit shall be issued by the Superintendent upon receipt of a requisition in the Form No. 8 in the said Schedule and upon payment of a fee of $2 and such permit shall be furnished in duplicate and one copy thereof shall be delivered to the keeper of such King's or licensed warehouse and the exporter shall on shipping such liquors procure a receipt for the same signed by the master or mate of the ship in which the liquors are to be exported to be endorsed on the duplicate copy of such permit, and shall forthwith deliver such duplicate copy and receipt to the Superintendent.

(3.) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any permit to export dutiable liquors by any ship until 48 hours before such ship may be intending to leave the port.

(4.) No dutiable liquors or denatured spirits shall be removed from any King's warehouse until the prescribed storage fees have been paid.

9. No dutiable liquors shall be removed for export from the King's or licensed warehouse in which they may be stored except in closed cases or vessels each containing not less than two gallons or the reputed equivalent of two gallons.

10. No dutiable liquors except such as are exported liquors to be to one consignee in one consigument in quantities of not less than forty gallons if in cask or the reputed equivalent thereof if in bottles shall be removed from any King's or licensed warehouse for export unless the cases or vessels containing the same shall be clearly and permanently marked on at least three sides in letters not less than three inches long with the words "For Export".

Owners or agents of ship to furnish

11. The owners or agents of any ship by which dutiable liquors may be imported shall within four hours of the time of the arrival of such ship or as soon thereafter as the office of the Superintendent shall be open furnish to of import to the Superintendent a true and correct statement of all Superintend- dutiable liquors imported therein which may have been

entered on the ship's manifest.

particulars

ent,

Owners or agents of ship to furnish particulars

of export to Superin- tendent.

12. The owners or agents of any ship by which dutiable liquors may be exported shall within twenty-four hours of the time of the departure of such ship furnish to the Superintendent a true and correct statement of all dutiable liquors exported therein which may have been entered on the ship's manifest or for the receipt of which for export such owners or agents or any persons acting on their behalf may have issued a receipt to any person,

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