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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TM JULY, 1898.

Licenses to disti.

Adulterated

liquors.

c. 63, 9, 5.)

require such person to give a bond with two sufficient sureties in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the still shall not exceed eight gallous capacity, and that he will not make use of such still, or suffer it to be made use of, except for the preparation of medicines or other articles required, bonâ fide, for medical or scientific purposes, and every such person found to have such still without having entered into such bond and obtained such license, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.

4. The Colonial Secretary may issue licenses to distil in the form of schedule A, on each of which licenses the fce specified in schedule S shall be payable in advance. Such conditions as the Governor in Council may from time to time determine may be added to such licenses. Every licensed distiller may sell by wholesale the liquors he distils.

5. Any person who shall distil, make, import, sell, dis- (38 & 39 Vic. pose of, or deal in any adulterated intoxicating liquor shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and if such adulterated liquor be injurious to health he may, on a second conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding six months besides any other penalties to which he may be liable under this Ordinance.

Unlicensed

ited.

No person shall be convicted under this section if he shows to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom be is charged that he did not know that the liquor imported, sold, disposed of, or dealt in by him was adulterated, and that he could not have known it with any reasonable diligence.

Sale of Intoxicating Liquors,

6. No person shall sell or dispose of, or advertise or sale prohibe expose for sale any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale or retail within the Colony, or shall permit or suffer any sneb intoxicating liquor to be sold or disposed of or advert- ised or exposed for sale in his house or other place within the Colony without an appropriate license under this Ordinance. The delivery of any intoxicating liquors shall be taken, in any proveeding under this Ordinance, to be primâ facio evidence that money or other consideration was given for the same.

Wholesale

and retvil

pic.

Temporary Evenses.

Application Pu license.

7. The holder of a grocer's license may also sell intoxi- cating liquors (Chinese wines and spirits excepted) wholesale, and the holder of a Chinese wine and spirit shop licence may also sell Chinese wines and spirits, wholesale; but no person shall sell intoxicating liquors by retail without a license to that effect, and this section shall apply to all retail sales of liquor to any person on pretence that he is a customer for other goods, as well as to all sales of quantities exceeding two gallons with an understanding that part is to be returned, and, generally, to any act whatever which, under whatsoever pretence, constitutes a retail sale of intoxicating liquor,

Temporary Liecusos,

8. The Colonial Secretary may, at any time, issue tem- porary licenses for the sale of liquors at any public enter- tainment or on any public vecasion, on payment of such fer, in each muse, as to the Governor shall seem fit.

Publican's, and Adjunct Licenses.

9. Every person desirous of obtaining a publicau's or adjunct license shall give ten days' notice to the Magis- trate in the form of schedule B or C according to the nature of the license required,

10. The Magistrate, or, when there are more than one, either Magistrate may, from time to time, appoint a day for considering and dealing with applications for the grant- ing or transferring of licenses, which shall be advertised in the Government Gazette and a local newspaper at least one week previously, and such Magistrate, with the assist- ance of such other Justices of the Peace as may attend on the said day, shall take into consideration all applications which may have been made for licenses for the sale of liquors within the Colony, or for transfers of licenses, and the presiding Magistrate may adjourn the consideration of all or any of such applications to any other lawful day.