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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17тH SEPTEMBER, 1898.
Temporary licenses.
Application for license.
Sessions.
Disagreement
of justices.
Applicants recognis
ances.
Fee. License.
Period of Hicense.
Records.
Transfer of licenses.
Death or
licensee.
customer for other goods, as well as to all soles of quantities exceeding two gallons with an understanding that part is to be returned, and, generally, to any act whatover which, under whatsoever pretence, constitutes a retail sale of intoxicating liquor.
Temporary Licenses,
8. The Colonial Secretary may, at any time, issue to holders of publican's or adjiet licenses temporary licenses for the sale of liquors at any public entertainment or on any public occasion, on payment of such fee, in each case, as to the Governor shall seem fit.
Publican's, and Adjunct Liccuses,
9. Every person desirous of obtaining a publican's or adjiet 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, any 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 Gorerament Gazeite and a local newspaper at least one week previously, and such Magistrate, with the assist- auec 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.
11. Every application for the grant or transfer of a li- ceuse shall be decided by a majority of votes of the justices present. To the case of equality, the presiding Magistrate shall, in addition to his one original rote, have a casting vote. Provided, however, that in case of any applicant being dis- satisfied with the order of the justices or the majority thereof, the Governor in Council may, in his discretion, alter and amend the order, on the petition of the dissatisfied party.
12. Every applicant for a license, whose application may be approved by the justices assembled as above, shall enter into a recognisance in the form of schedule D or E accord- ing to the nature of the liccuse be requires, whereupon the Magistrate shall deliver to him a certificate in the form of schedule For G according to the nature of his application : and the Magistrate shall, within ten days, transmit to the Treasurer & return of all such certificates as may have been granted in the form of schedule H to this Ordinance.
13. The applicant may, within fourteen days from the date of such certificate, lodge it in the Treasury together with the fee specified in schedule S, whereupon the Treasurer shall issue to him a license in the form of schedule 1 or j according to the nature of the Recuse for which the cer- tificate is granted, such license to be called a publican's Hcense in the one case, or an adjunct license in the other.
14. Every publican's or adjunet license shall be valid ouly until the 30th of November next following the date on which it is granted: Always provided that, where this period is less than a year, a proportionate part only of the aforesaid fee shall be charged, to which (except in the ense of the transfer of a license) ten per cent shall be added,
15. The Magistrate shall keep a record of all recognis - ances entered into under section 12, and the Treasurer shall keep a record of all liceuses issued under section 13 of this Ordinance.
Transfers of Publican's and Adjunct Liecuses.
16. The presiding Magistrate and justices, at their meetings herciabefore provided for, may, in their disgre rion, transfer, in the form of schedule K, in respect of the same premises, any publican's license or adjunct license to the nominee of the original holder of such liccuse, suel nomiuce making a like application, receiving a like certifi- eate, and entering into like recognisances, as if applying for & license on his own behalf. The fee specified in Sche- dule S shall be paid by the transferce for each transfor.
Cases of Death or Insolvency.
17. In case of the death or insolvency of any person insolvency of holding a publican's license or adjunct license mider this Ordinance, the executor, or administrator, or trustees of such licensee, may carry on the business of such licensed house mutil the expiration of the Beense, subject to all the sane regulations as the original licensee, and provided that such executor, administrator, or trustees shall forth with enter into new recognisances under this Ordinance.
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