hongkong-colonial-ordinances-1847 — Page 77

8 COLONIAL ORDINANCES.


Penalties imposed III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if from and
for
or Violatio n of this after the Time limited for this Ordinance to come into Operation and
the Infringement
Ordinance. Effect, any Unlicensed Person or Persons shall sell, vend, barter, or
retail Cigars, Cheroots, Snuff, or Tobacco, manufactured or unmanu-
factured, in less Quantities or Weights at a time than as above
prescribed and mentioned, he or they, for every such Offence, shall
be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, to be
recoverable in a Summary Manner before any Magistrate of Police,
and in Default of said Penalty being paid after Conviction , the same
shall be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and
Chattels ; and if there be no sufficient Distress, every such Offender
shall be liable to Imprisonment for a Period not exceeding One
Calendar Month : Provided always, that in case any such Conviction
shall take place and be had on the Evidence of any Common or Public
Informer, he or she shall be entitled to One Moiety of said Penalty.

JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c. &c.


Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 7th day of July, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.




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