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The Hongkong Government Gazettę,

[APRIL 10, 1858.

Amendment of Or-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 7 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844.

[5th April, 1858.] Be it ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 is hereby amended, by substituting the words "Three Hundred current dinance No. 11 of 1844. Dollars," in the room of the words "Fifty Dollars," in Sections Seven and Eight of the same: And also by omitting Section Thirty-three of the said Ordinance: And also by inserting after Section Twenty-five of the same, the following new Sections, to be respectively numbered from Twenty-six to Thirty both inclusive, that is to say :-

Chinese Licenses.

Colonial Secretary may grant Chineso Licenses.

$120 per Annum to be the License Fee.

Conditions

Liceuse.

of the

Penalty thereof.

Billiard Tables,

-Skittles, and Ninepin

-or Bowling Alleys.

Penalty.

Proceedings.

Repeal of Ordi. nances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853.

Operation of Ordi-

nance.'

Futuro reprints of

"XXVI. The foregoing provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to Chinese people licensed "to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese people only.

"XXVII. A License to retail Spirituous Liquors for One Year to Chinese people only may "be granted to a Chinaman only by the Colonial Secretary, who shall have first satisfied himself "of the fitness of the said Chinaman, and that he hath duly paid, as he is hereby required to pay, "into the Colonial Treasury, the first Monthly instalment of the Year's Fee for the said License.

"XXVIII. The said Fee shall be One Hundred and Twenty current Dollars per Annum, pay- "able in advance, by even Monthly instalments.

"XXIX. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to require, by way of condition inserted "in any such License, that the holder thereof do exhibit conspicuously and permanently in front of "the place of business thereby licensed, his Name and Number, and the nature of the said License; "and also (if it be thought fit) that he do make and send in to the said Colonial Secretary on "the first Day of every Month of the said License, a full and true statement in writing of the "names and quantities of Spirituous Liquors prepared, sold, and retailed by him during the Month "then next immediately preceding.

"XXX. If the Holder of any such Chinese License shall offend against the tenor thereof, "he shall, for the first Offence, be liable to a Fine not exceeding the Sum of One Hundred current «Dollars; and for a second Offence, to the forfeiture of his said License :"-

And also by re-numbering the remaining Sections of the same Ordinance, to the end, 'beginning with Section Twenty-six, which shall be re-numbered Thirty-one, and so on in due arithmetical order: And also by inserting in Section Twenty-eight (re-numbered Thirty-three), after the words "Two Gallons," the words "or (in the case of a Chinese Seller or Retailer) of any quantity of Spirituous "Liquors." And also by omitting so much of Section Thirty-two (re-numbered Thirty-seven) as directs the recovery of Fines and Penalties before a Magistrate or Justices; and also by inserting after the said last-mentioned Section the several new Sections following, to be numbered respectively from Thirty-eight to Forty, both inclusive; that is to say:-

"XXXVIII. No Person shall keep a Public Billiard Table, Skittle Ground, or Ninepin or Bowling Alley, without having previously obtained a License thereto from the Colonial Secretary, "which License shall endure for One Year from the Day of its date; and for every such License "there shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury, in advance, the Fee of Seventy-five current "Dollars.

"XXXIX. Any Person keeping a Table, Ground, or Alley, contrary to Section Thirty-eight, "shall be liable, for every such Offence, to pay a Fine not exceeding the Sum of Two Hundred "current Dollars.

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XL. All License Fees and Instalments of License Fees payable under this Ordinance, "and unpaid at the Days or Times appointed for payment thereof, and also all Fines, Money Penalties, "and Costs incurred under this Ordinance, may be sued for, recovered, and enforced, according to any "Law for the time being in force for regulating Summary Proceedings before a Stipendiary Magis "trate or Petty Sessions' Court;"

And also by inserting in the title of the same Ordinance after the words "Public Houses," the words “and certain Games:" And Ordinances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853, are hereby repealed.

II. This Ordinance shall come into effect forthwith, yet not so as to affect any License heretofore granted, until the expiry thereof.

III. In every reprinted copy of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, the amendments hereinbefore specified in the amended Ordi- respect of the same, shall be made by the Printer before publishing the same: And it shall not be after-

wards necessary to print or reprint this Ordinance.

nauce.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 5th Day of April, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E Castro, Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

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No. 16.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In reference to the notification published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of 30th May, 1857, requesting Her Majesty's Subjects, who have suffered Losses in consequence of the then recent events at Canton, to send in a Statement of these Losses to Her Majesty's Consulate: His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c., &e., has received a Communication from His Excellency The EARL OF Elgin and KincARDINE, K.T., Her Majesty's High Commissioner to China, desiring that all British Subjects having Claims for such Losses, will, without delay, prepare a Statement of their Claims, made up and revised to the latest period. These Statements, (in Duplicate,) are to be addressed to Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Canton, and forwarded to this Superintendency, from whence they will be despatched to His Excellency The High Commissioner.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.