336 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1867.
5. The Registered Proprietors of Licensed Houses having any representation to make to, or any business to transact with, the Government must do so by personal application to the Registrar General, as no attention will be paid to memorials or representations coming through third parties.
6. The Captain Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Assistant Superintendent of Police, and the Registrar General, and any Persons authorised by the Officer administering the Government to visit and inspect the Licensed Houses shall, at all hours of the day and night, have access to the said Licensed Houses.
7. For each Licensed House there shall be issued a Monthly License, and there shall be paid in advance such Monthly fee as may be directed by the Governor, and in addition there shall be deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum equal to the fee for One Month as a security for compliance with these Regulations.
8. The Officer administering the Government may at any time order any or all Licensed Gambling Houses to be closed either summarily and at once, or after such notice as the said Officer administering the Government may direct, and in every case of a House being closed for breach of Regulations then. so long as any Licensed House or Houses remain open, the Officer administering the Government, for the purpose of preventing such irregularity operating to the advantage of any holder of a Gambling License, may direct the Monthly fees payable for the remaining Licenses to be so increased that the total amount of fees receivable by the Government shall remain unaltered.
9. Playing in the Licensed Houses shall not commence before 6 A.M. and shall cease at 11 P.M., or earlier if so ordered by the Officer administering the Government.
10. Not more than 7 per cent discount shall be claimed by the Proprietor of any House on the Gains of the Players.
11. No Proprietor of a Licensed House or Person connected therewith shall on any account give money or articles of value directly or indirectly to any Person in Government employ either by way of reward, bribe, gratuity, or payment for service.
Approved in Council,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
No. 138.
Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to appoint. provisionally, until Her Majesty's pleasure may be known, WILLIAM KESWICK, Esquire, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, vice the Honorable JAMES WHITTALL, resigned.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th September, 1867.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 139.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of a Despatch from His Hawaiian Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the subject of Chinese Emigration to the Hawaiian Kingdom, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th September, 1867.
(Copy.)
FOREIGN OFFICE.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
HONOLULU, April 30th, 1867.
SIH, Mr. C. DE VARIGNY, the Minister of Foreign Relations, being absent on the Island of Hawaii, I think it right to inform you by the earliest opportunity that the British ship Eastfield arrived at this Port from Manila, on the 23rd instant, with a large number of Chinese Coolies on board, bound to labor on these Islands under contract to the late Firm of WALKER ALLEN & Co., Merchants of this City.
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