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DIEU DROIT




HONGKONG ,



ANNO SEPTIMO



VICTORIÆ REGINE.



No. 11 of 1844.


Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-
dencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects
trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, with
the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance for Licensing Public Houses, and for Regulating Title.
the Retail of Fermented and Spirituous Liquors in the Colony of
Hongkong.
[ 1st May, 1844. ]


WHEREAS it is expedient to provided for the Licensing of Preamble.
Public Houses, and promoting Good Order therein, and for Regulating
the Retail of Fermented and Spirituous Liquors, and preventing the
Illicit Sale thereof in the Colony of Hongkong :


I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That
from and after the First Day of July now next ensuing, all Licenses
to sell Spirituous Liquors hitherto granted in the Colony of Hongkong
shall be null and void, and that if any Person shall, from and after
the said First Day of July, Sell or Dispose of by Retail, in any Quantity
less than Two Gallons, any Ale, Beer, or other Malt Liquor, or any
Wine, Cider, Ginger-Beer, Spruce-Beer, Brandy, Rum, or other Fer-
mented or Spirituous Liquor, in any House or Place within the
Colony of Hongkong or its Dependencies, or shall permit or suffer any
such Liquors as aforesaid to be sold or disposed of by retail as
aforesaid, by any other Person, in his or her House or other Place,
within the said Colony or its Dependencies, without having first
obtained a License in the Manner and Form hereinafter directed, every
such