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keeping an account with a lodger in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in any court.

General.

24. No person licensed under this Ordinance shall Prohibition take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any of taking entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house pledge for any article or thing whatever, except money.

liquor.

sale of

25. Every person licensed under this Ordinance Measures or shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures weights for or weights legalized in the Colony and not otherwise, liquor. except when the quantity is less than half a pint, or except when the liquor is sold in bottles; he shall also measure or weigh such liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.

premises.

26. If any person is convicted of unlawfully retail- Power to ing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises search of such person and the house, lodging, shop, or ware- suspected house where such offence has been committed, and any court or yard connected therewith, shall be liable to be searched, at any time of the day or night, by any police officer, with or without a warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof is then occupied by the person so convicted.

27. Whenever any police officer finds any person Drinking in drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor unlicensed is sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for place. such sale is not, on demand, produced to such police officer, it shall be lawful for him to apprehend all such persons so found drinking therein; and every such person so found drinking shall, if such place is in fact unlicensed, be liable upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person informs against such unlicensed person or voluntarily becomes a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.

28. No master or other person employing journey- Prohibition men, workmen, servants, or labourers, and not being of payment the licensed keeper of a house in which any in- of journey-

men, etc., toxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, shall at place pay or cause any payment to be made to any such where liquor journeyman, workman, servant or labourer in or at is sold. any such house.

29.-(1) Every person licensed under this Ordin- Production ance shall produce his licence to any police or revenue of licence officer, on being required to do so.

and police powers of

(2) Any European officer of police shall have free access. access to every part of any house licensed under sec- tions 16 or 33 at any hour of the night or day.

Dealers' licences,

First

30.--(1) Every person desirous of obtaining a dea- Issue of ler's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply dealer's to the Superintendent, who may, in his discretion, licences, grant to the applicant a licence in Form No. 7 in the Schedule. First Schedule, upon payment of the appropriate fee Form No. 7. specified in the Second Schedule.

(2) Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.

Second

Schedule.

31.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Making of Council to make regulations and conditions for the regulations granting of a dealer's licence.

and condi- tions.

(2) Such regulations or conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, and may regulate the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the hours and conditions of sale, and

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