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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1845 . 119


Salt and Opium.


to enforce the same by such penalties as shall seem expedient, provided always that
such penalties shall not exceed those hereinbefore imposed .

6. And be it further enacted and ordained , that it shall and may be lawful to Power to Gov
ernor in Council
and for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, to make hereafter all to make like
regulations for
the farming,
such rules and regulations as to him may seem expedient concerning the farming, selling, and
retailing of
selling, and retailing of bhaang, ganja, paun, betel, and betel-leaf, and that in the bhaang, ganja,
paun, betel, and
making and enforcing of such rules and regulations he shall be vested with all and betel-leaf, as
for opium.
singular the powers and authority hereby vested in him with respect to the selling,
farming, and retailing of opium.
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that no person shall exercise or carry No person to act
as pawnbroker
on the trade or occupation of a pawnbroker or of an auctioneer, or shall keep a public or auctioneer,
or keep a public
billiard table,
billiard table, without having previously obtained a licence from the Governor of without a licence
for such
Hongkong for the time being in Council, which licence shall endure for the space of purposes.
one year from the date thereof : Provided always, that every person taking out a
pawnbroker's or an auctioneer's licence, or a licence for a public billiard table, shall
pay into the Colonial Treasury such sums as to His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice of the Executive Council, may seem fit, the said sums to be paid previous
to the granting of such licence or licences.

8. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any person shall, without Under penalty
not exceeding
having obtained such licences aforesaid, carry on or exercise the trade or occupation two hundred
dollars.
of a pawnbroker or auctioneer, or keep a public billiard table, or either or any of
them, or shall be convicted of exposing for sale, or putting up anything whatever to
public auction, or of taking anything whatever in pawn, he shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before any
Police Magistrate ; and in default of payment, the same to be levied by distress and
sale of his goods and chattels .

9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the Governor in Council, if he Discretionary
power to levy
see fit, shall be empowered to levy an auction-duty of two -and-a-half per cent on all an auction-duty
of two-and-a-half
per cent on all
sales by auction within this Colony. * sales. [ Duty
abolished: See
Government
Notification 15th
March, 1849, and
an annualfee
of$150 imposed.
Subsequently
increased to $300:
See Government
Notification ,
Gazette
27th June, 1857.]
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every person who shall act as an Auctioneer to
make quarterly
auctioneer in the said Colony shall make and give, at the1 office of the Colonial returns on oath,
and deduct the
auction-duties-
Secretary, once in every three months, a faithful and true return on oath of all the his books being
liable to inspec
sums received at sales made by him as auctioneer within the said three months, and tion.
that every such Auctioneer shall, from every sum received by him on the sale of any
article by him in that capacity, deduct the sum sanctioned under this Ordinance, and
pay the amount thereof into the Colonial Treasury quarterly ; and the books of such