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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JUNE. 1879.

XXXIX. No licensed publican shall maintain any

action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of spirituous liquors, unless such debt shall bond fide have been con- tracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for spirituous liquors be allowed where the liquors bona fide delivered at one time

shall not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor any

amount of debt whatsoever incurred by any seaman or soldier in Her Majesty's service for spirituous liquors : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall ex-

tend 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.

XL. No licensed person shall take or receive in pay- ment or pledge for liquor or any entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever except money.

XLI. Every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures or weights

legalised in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint or....

or

except when the liquor is imported in bottles, and shall

also measure or weigh such liquor in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so,

XLII. Every house licensed as herein provided, shall be

considered as a common inn, and no goods or chattels

whatsoever, bona 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 house or appurtenances, or in res- pect of any other claim soever against the said house

or appurtenances, 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.

XLIII. 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 or Excise 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.

在算

客

不

在衙門追討

討燒及得

酒過

數往

礙

店

客東

313

欸無能不凡上如燒牌第 及有者果 五燒

目不 如

如欵 該有

控凡

兵署每

每告元每

項人領 每追酒

項清與此丁莫次

莫次叉已討樓

能何銀 取物外 概不

接宴該

一項或在

不照. 第

之凡四 因人領十

不論金物事備在酒斷牌欵

各得帶者及法國酒麗領第 用入半秤家必牌 四

照欵

本

沽或

店或在該店兩廁或與該店相連之 在既定罪後六個月 港 領酒樓牌照或附 牌應待之與平常酒樓無異凡有 人因私賣各式致人

酒必要遵照本

銀欠所

兩房

連屋者

累掛皆店

相領異

由物封價或鎖等 牌凡例

控產變則因歸處得之之有領

入或或凡住人隨有內 於人第

入内盤查

相屬眷

所時票

之

無論多寡均皆不准但此 爲按除金 能准禀致國家水陸兵丁 接收各物 若亞凡裝載樽内 官此等貨物產業因欠租項或因 人所住之屋宇客寓 國家所議定之量 虎照常來往客商所用者皆斷不得 内各差役餉員不論

帶入想着外斷不 別故與此則例不合者被封變價則 住眷店舖棧房一切

廳居

請秤所買之酒則 業給還原主又可追究因此情由控 或全座或一房皆可

必當面明量明秤 告之費用照理以爲應償多寡

秤外載

明酒請 斷樽某沽之

秤則量倘不內兩不量港各附凡 情各別官租因處店貨牌第 巡故尙銀該照或物者叫

領

XLIV. Whenever any Justice of the Peace, or any Police or Excise 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 Justice or such Police or Excise Officer, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice of the Peace or such Police or Excise Officer to apprehend all such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, upon the view of such Justice, or 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 unli- censed person or voluntarily become a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.

可舍所

入晝

客或

定致凡

寓犯夜論月罪人有

不醉巡者自之餉不向處 紳第

不過二拾大圓

醉之人罰銀但每次罰銀 巡理府判斷可將如此飲

外願人員肯討

到有給 零

權 看照

拘則

拿該 在

處飮酒該紳士差役餉員

向討牌照看驗而該店東

人或

第四十四欸 若有掌法

於餉若

醉員

|之見掌

意沽立

見私供

銀飮或酒

酒役東員酒有法