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Chief Magistrate

of Police to grant -certificates.

Applicant to enter-into -recognizance

before certificate shall be granted.

Proviso for persons prevented from appearing by illness.

Certificate to be lodged with Colonial

Treasurer who.

will grant a Heense.

A

A

ORDINANCE No. 11 or 1844.

Licensing Public Houses, &c.

or unmarried, together with the names, residence, and additions of his or her proposed sureties, and that every person, giving such notice, shall in like manner deliver, or cause to be delivered, with such notice, a certificate, signed, by three or more known, and respectable housekeepers residing within the said Colony as aforesaid, in the form prescribed in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked A.

4. And be it enacted, that the Chief Magistrate of Police may appoint, from time to time, as may be necessary, a day for the granting, or transferring of licenses, which shall be advertised in a public newspaper, at least one month previously, and the said Chief Magistrate of Police, with the assistance of such other Justices of the Peace, as hay attend on any such day at his office in Victoria, shall take into consideration all applications, which shall have been made for licenses, for the sale of liquors in Hong- kong, and its dependencies, and it shall be lawful, for the said Chief Magistrate of Police, to grant to such persons, after taking the required recognizances, certificates in the form contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked B., for authorizing the granting of such license, and it shall be lawful, for the said Chief Magistrate of Police, to adjourn the consideration of all, or any of the applications then made to such other day, or days, as the Chief Magistrate, shall from time to time, deem expedient. Pro- vided always, that in case of disagreement, concerning the granting, or with-holding such licenses, the power of granting, or with-holding, the same, shall be at the time vested in the said Chief Magistrate of Police, and that all Justices, dissenting from him, may enter the reasons of their dissent in the proceedings of the Court, and the said Chief Magistrate shall submit them to the Governor of Hongkong, and take his final decision thereon.

5. And be it further enacted, that every person applying for a license shall, before the Chief Magistrate of Police deliver to him or her a certificate as aforesaid, to authorize the issue of such license, enter into a recognizance in the form, and with the conditions, contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked C., with two sureties in the sum of three hundred dollars each, and all such recognizances with their con- ditions, shall be regularly recorded.

6. And be it further enacted, that in case any person, desirous of obtaining such certificate for a license, shall be hindered by sickness or infirmity, or by any other reasonable cause, from attending in person on any such licensing day, such cause of absence being proved to the satisfaction of the said Chief Magistrate of Police, it shall be lawful for the said Chief Magistrate, to certify in favour of such person, upon three sufficient sureties to be approved as aforesaid entering into such recognizance, each in the sum of three hundred dollars, for performance of the conditions of the said recog- nizance.

7. And be it further enacted, that every certificate which shall be granted by the said Chief Magistrate, to authorize the issuing of a license as aforesaid, shall after the passing of this Ordinance, be null and void, unless the same, and the sum required to be paid for such license, be lodged in the office of the Colonial Treasurer, or in such