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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1898.

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*Chinese Restaurant License means a license to

keepers of Chinese hotels, restaurants, or eating- houses, etc., for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors in connection with their respective businesses, sunk liquors to be consumed either on the premises or in conjunction with meals sent out, but not otherwise, and it does not authorise the keeping of a public bar; Chinese wine and spirit shop License" meaux #1 Heense to sull Chinese wines and spirits by retail or wholesale such liquor not to be consumed on the premises:

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Grocer's License means a license to sell intoxiesting Taquors (Chinese wines and spirits excepted) either wholesale or by the hottle, such liquors not to b consumed on the premises :

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*Eating-horse License! i-ats a Feense for the keep- ing of any cating-house, coffee house, or other similar house where no intoxicating liquors are sold on the premises.

Distilleries.

3. No person shall make, distil, or rectify any spirits, or Unlicensed shall knowingly kep or have in his possession any still or distilling other utensil, or apparatus for distilling or making or prohibited. rectifying spirits, without a license under this Ordinance.

The Colonial Secretary may issue distillery licenses Licenses to in the form of schedule A, on each of which liccuses the distil. fee specified in schedule 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 the liquors he distils, but only in quantities of not less than two gallons of one liquor at one time, and such liquor so sold must not be consumed on the premises,

4. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to issue a Apothecarier. license free of all charge, to any apothecary, chemist, chemists and or druggiss applying for the same, to keep and use on his druggists premises, a still of not more than eight gallons capacity for may have

stills of eight the purpose of his trade only, provided that every such person quilons shall give a bond to the Colonial Secretary with two sufficient contents, suretics in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the still shall not exccod 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, bona fide, for medical or seientific purposes, and every such person found to have such still without having entered into such boud and obtained auch licence, shall be dected to be guilty of an offence mider this Ordinaare.

5. Any person who shall distil, make, import, sell, dis- Adulterated pose of, or deal in any adulterated intoxicating liquor aholi liquors. be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and if such adulterated liquer be injurious to health he may, on a scrond conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment with or without bard labour for a period not exceeding six months besides any other penalties to which he may is Hable under this Ordinance.

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

Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.

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6. No person shall sell or dispose of, or wivertine or Unlicensed expost for sale any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale pale probilos or Detail within the Colony, or shall permit or suffer any such intoxicating liquor to be sold or disposed of or advert- ised or exposed for sale in his house or other pluer within the Colony withom an appropriate license under this Ordinance. The delivery of any intoxicating liquors shall be taken, in any proceeding under this Ordinance, to bre primâ facie evidence of sale and that money or other consi- deration was given for the same.

and retail

7. The hobler of a grocer's license may also sell intoxi- Wholesale cating liquors (Chinese wines and spiritsuxrepied) wholesale,, sale. and the holder of a Chinese wine and spirit shop leeuce 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

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