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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1885.
fondbag of Chinese Spirits.
fficit landing.
Excise Officers.
(SS, O. 67.)
Regulations.
Chinese Spirit Shope
+11 of 44.27-30.)
Ronded Warehouse.
Permit to land.
(58. 0.22.)
Payment of duty.
Security-
dispose of, realise, and to transfer by conveyance all such property mortgaged, pledged or deposited without action, suit, or other legal proceeding and to apply the same or tho proceeds of sale thereof to liquidate any arrears of rent or any fines, penalties, forfeitures, damages, or losses, which may arise or exist against the said farmer at or after the end of or during his term, whether the same shall be due to Gov- ernment or to the incoming farmers: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be held to prevent the addition of terms to those set out in the contract and mort- gage in the said Schedule.
12. The duty on Chinese spirits provided by Section 3 of this Ordinance shall be paid to the Spirit Farmer when the spirits are landed, and it shall be lawful for the Farmer to mark the jars or other vessels containing such spirits in any way that to him may seem desirable.
13. No person shall land or attempt to land any Chinese spirits at any place in the Colony without payment to the Spirit Farmer of the duty required by this Ordinance.
14. Subject to the approval of the Governor the Spirit Farmer may appoint Excise Officers under Section 29 of this Ordinance. The duties and privileges of such Excise Officers shall be exercised in relation to Chinese Spirits only, and such officers shall have all the rights of entry, search, and seizure with relation to Chineso spirits which, by any Section of this Ordinance, are granted to Excise Officers appointed by the Governor.
15. The Governor in Council may from time to time make, add to, alter, revise, or cancel Regulations for the landing of Chinese spirits, and for the better collection of duty thereon, and all such Regulations when published in the Gazette in English and Chinese shall have the force of law.
16. The Spirit Farmer, subject to the approval of the Colonial Secretary, may grant a licence in the form of Schedule C to any person to retail Chinese spirits, such Chinese spirits not to be consumed on the premises where they are sold, and the holder of such licence shall exhibit conspicuously and permanently in front of his licensed place of business his name and number and the nature of such licence, on a sign, the size and design of which shall be approved by the Colonial Secretary, and the fee provided by Schedule I to this Ordinance shall be paid by cach licensee to the Spirit Farmer. The Spirit Farmer may permit the transfer of any such licence in form of Schedule D.
Imported Spirits.
17. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by an Order to be published in the Gazette to proclaim any place to be a bonded warehouse, and to require that all imported spirits on which duty has not been paid shall be stored in such bonded warehouse. The Governor may also, by a like order to be published in the Gazette, make Regulations for the management of such bonded warehouse, and may from time to time add to, alter, repeal, or revive such Regu- lations. All such Regulations when published shall have the force of law.
18. Before any imported spirits are landed in the Colony, the importer shall make application to the Harbour Master in the form of Schedule E to this Ordinance, whereupon the Harbour Master shall issue a permit to land the spirits in the form of Schedule F.
19. The Harbour Master may require the Importer to store such imported spirits in the Government Bonded warehouse, if any such warehouse shall have been provided, till the duty is paid, or may allow him to store them on his own premises, merely debiting him with the amount of the duty in an account to be kept by the Harbour Master, or may require him to pay the duty before the spirits are landed, or, if landed, before they are unpacked.
20. Whenever the Harbour Master shall debit or shall have debited any importer with any duty, it shall be lawful for him to require such security for payment as he may think fit, and no importer shall deal with or unpack the spirits on which such duty is due until the security required shall have been given or the duty paid. Such security may be given by one or more sureties in the form of Schedule X to this Ordinance, and shall be regarded in. any Court as primâ fucie ovidence that the sums claimed under such security as duty are payable by the sureties.
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