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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD APRIL, 1886.
Forfeiture of
recognisances. (11 of 44. 15.)
Action on account of liquors.
(Îl of 44. 17.)
Taking pledges.
(11 of 44. 18.)
Measures.
(11 of 44. 19.)
Goods of stranger.
(11 of 44. 20.)
Suspected premises.
(11 of 44. 35:)
Drinking in unlicensed place.
(II of 44, 36.)
Payment of workmen.
(11 of 44, 87.)
21. When any licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall be charged with any second offence under this Ordinance and shall not appear to answer to such charge, it shall be lawful for any Police Magistrate to order that the recogni sance of such licensed publican or adjunct licensee be for- feited until his appearance, and in case any licensed publican or adjunct licensee be twice convicted of any offence under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Police Magistrate to order, on the second conviction, that any fine imposed on such offender, not exceeding the amount of his recognisances, be paid out of such recognisances.
22. No licensed publican shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of liquors, unless such debt shall bonâ fide have been contracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for liquors be allowed where the liquors bona fide delivered at one time shall not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor shall any amount of debt whatsoever incurred by any seaman or soldier in Her Majesty's service for liquors be allowed: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent innkeepers from keeping an account with lodgers and travellers, in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.
23. No licensed person shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever except money.
24. Every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures legalised in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint, or except when the liquor is imported in bottles, and shall also measure such liquor in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.
25. Every house licensed as herein provided shall be considered as a common inn, and no goods or chattels whatsoever, bonâ fide the property of any stranger, and being in such licensed house, or the appurtenances thereof or any place used and occupied therewith, in the ordinary course of resort at such licensed house, shall be subject to be distrained or seized for or in respect of any claim of rent for such licensed honse or appurtenances, or in respect of any other claim soever against the said house or appurten- ances, or the owner thereof, and if any such goods or chattels shall be distrained or seized for rent, or in any other manner contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for any Magistrate of Police to inquire into any complaint made in respect of such distress or seizure in a summary manner, and to order such goods and chattels to be restored to the owner or proprietor thereof, and further to award such reasonable costs as shall be incurred by such summary proceedings.
26. If any person be convicted of unlawfully retailing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person, and the house, lodging, shop, or warehouse where such offence shall have 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 a warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof shall be occupied by the person so convicted.
27. Whenever any Police Officer shall find any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor shall be sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale shall not on demand be produced to such Police Officer, it shall be lawful for such Police Officer to apprehend all such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, upon conviction before any Magistrate, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person shall inform against such unlicensed person or voluntarily become a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
28. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by retail.
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