12405-1909-Ordinance-passed-and-assented-to--Liquors-No-27 — Page 4

714 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1909.

:

Dutiable liquors not to be

removed for exporation except in elosed cases.

Dutiable

marked for

export.

11. 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.

12. No dutiable liquors except such as are exported liquors to be to one cousignee in one consignment in quantities of not less than forty gallons if in cask or the reputed equivaleut 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 by stencil or otherwise on at least three sides in letters not less than three inches long with the words "For Export".

Master

owner or

agent of ship to furnish particulars of import to Superintend

ent.

Owner or ngent of ship to furnish particulars

of export to Superin- tendent.

Permit not used to be returned in twenty-four hous.

Liquors shipped under a permit not

to be re- landed.

13. The master owner or agent of any ship by which dutiable liquors may be imported shall within four hours after the arrival of such ship or as soon thereafter as the office of the Superintendent shall be open furnish to the Superintendent a true and correct statement of all dutiable liquors imported therein.

14. The owner or agent 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.

15. Any person who has obtained a permit to move any liquors from any ship or to remove any liqnors for export- ation and has not availed himself thereof on the day stated therein shall within twenty-four hours from sneh date or as soon thereafter as the Superintendent's Office may be open for business return such permit to such office.

16. No person shall reland or permit the relanding of any liquors shipped under any permit or knowingly neglect or omit to cause such liquors to be exported in accordance with the terms of such permit.

PART III.

King ware- houses,

License warehouse,

Inspection.

of wade-

houses.

Storage of Dutiable Liquors.

17. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time approve and appoint warehouses or places of security to be King's warehouses for the warehousing of dutiable liquors and may from time to time revoke such approval and there- upon all dutiable liquors warehoused in a King's warehouse of which the approval has been revoked shall be removed as the Governor may direct.

18.-(1) The Superintendent may from time to time with the approval of the Governor grant licences for the warehousing of dutiable liquors in places to be specified in such licences and to be called licensed warehouses and the Governor may at any time cancel any such licence and thereupon all dutiable liquors warehoused in a licensed warehouse the licence of which has been cancelled shall be removed as the Governor may direct.

(2.) The fee for such licence shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, or such other sum as the Legislative Council may by resolution from time to time direct, but no fee shall be charged for a licence granted to the Naval or Military Authorities for Naval or Military purposes. -

(3.) No such licence shall be transferable without the consent of the Governor,

19. (1.) The keeper of any King's warehouse and the licensee of any licensed warehouse shall at all times during the usual business hours allow the Superintendent or any