45971-1916-Resolution-under-the-Liquors-Ordinance-1909 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1, 1916.

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(c.) $0.60 cents a gallon on the native liquor known as Fa Tsau and on the

following sweetened, prepared, or medicated wines :-

Ng Ka Pei, Mui Kwai Lo, Sz Kwok Kung, Fu Kwat Muk Kwa, Yan

Chan Lo, and Ko Leung Kon.

All such liquor shall contain not more than 45% of alcohol by weight. (d.) $0.80 cents a gallon on the native liquor known as Fan Tsau, if contain- ing 50% or under of alcohol by weight, with the addition of two cents for every one per centum between 50% and 55% of alcohol by weight. (e.) $1.00 a gallon with the addition of eight cents for every one per centum above 55% of alcohol by weight on any native liquor containing above 55% of alcohol by weight.

(f.) $0.10 cents per gallon on all native liquor distilled in the New Terri- tories, not including New Kowloon and the Island of Cheung Chau, for consumption in the said Territories.

Further resolved that--

(1.) On native wines and spirits declared or labelled as belonging to any of the above divisions the appropriate duty therein laid down shall be paid except that on any native liquor however declared or labelled found by the Govern- ment Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint in that behalf to contain more alcohol than is permitted in the division to which it is declared or labelled as belonging there shall be paid the appropriate duty of the division in which the amount of alcohol found has placed it: each division in such case shall represent native liquor of the limit of strength in alcohol therein stated and irrespective of any definition. or description of such liquor, and on any native wines and spirits not declared or labelled as belonging to any division there shall be paid the duty appropriate to the division in which the amount of alcohol found by the Government Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint on that behalf has placed it.

(2.) Stills in the New Territories (not including New Kowloon and the Island of Cheung Chau) shall be prohibited from sending liquor produced in these stills to Hongkong or to New Kowloon: provided that any licensee of a distillery who desires to send such liquor to Hongkong or New Kowloon may be granted a permit to do so, upon payment of the duties charged in Hongkong or New Kowloon.

(3.) On intoxicating liquors, other than spirits of wine, arrack, and native wines and spirits, stored in a general bonded or licensed warehouse at the date of the passing of this resolution, imported into, distilled, made, or prepared in the Colony above the strength of 18° under proof there shall be paid an additional duty of 6 cents for every degree above such strength in the case of brandy, and of 5 cents for every degree above such strength in the case of any other liquor.

The Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provisions of Section 3 (1) of the Liquors Ordinance, 1909, on the 16th day of March, 1911, (published in the Government Gazette of the 17th day of March, 1911, Government Notification No. 769, and on pages 288 and 289 of the "Regulations of Hongkong, 1914,"), is hereby cancelled.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

1st March, 1916.

No. 91. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:

Ordinance No. 2 of 1916.—An Ordinance to prevent the use of false passports, and to confer on the Governor-in-Council power to order the internment of certain suspected persons.