984 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1885.
Taking pledges.
(11 of 44. 18.)
Measures.
(1 of 44. 19.)
Goods of stranger.
(11 of 44. 20.)
Suspected
premises.
(11 of 44, 35.)
Drinking in unlicensed place.
411 of 44. 36.)
Payment of workmen.
(1 of 44. 37.)
Wholesale and Grocer's Licences. How obtained.
Power to make rules.
Entry and arrest with warrant.
(83.0, 74.)
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. 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- auces, 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 provisious 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.
53. 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 or without warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof shall be occupied by the person so convicted.
54. 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 summ 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.
55. 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.
Wholesale and Grocer's Licences.
56. Every person desirous of obtaining a wholesale or a grocer's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the Colonial Secretary, who may in his discrétion grant to the applicant a licence in the form of Schedule or V according to the nature of his application, on production of a receipt from the Treasurer for a fee of Two hundred dollars. Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.
57. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Conncil from time to time to make, alter, amend and repeal regulations and conditions for the granting of Wholesale and Grocer's licences. Such conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, may alter the above scale of fees, may regulate the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the hours and conditions of sale, and all other matters connected with such licences. All such regulations when published in the Government Gazette shall have the force of law.
Arrest and Search,
58. Any Police Magistrate may, by his warrant, directed to any Police Officer not under the rank of a Sergeant, empower him by day or by night to enter and search any dwelling house, shop, or other building, or place, or any ship lying or being within the Colony, in any case in which it
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