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284 ORDINANCES No. 4 OF 1853 AND No. 1 OF 1854.


Spirits- Opium. Police Rate.


SCHEDULE B.

No.
LICENCE TO [ retail raw opium] [ or to prepare opium, and sell prepared opium,] [ or to keep a
smoking divan.]
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,
Hongkong, 185
[ A. B. ] of [ insert native place.] [ insert calling ] is hereby licensed to [as the case may be] under the
provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 on the premises known as [ describe the premises mentioning the
number of the house and the name ofthe street.]
This licence will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on 185 •
A fee of dollars is to be paid at the Colonial Treasury on the
day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the
property of the defaulter.
[ C. D.]
Countersigned Superintendent ofPolice.
[E. F.]
Chief Magistrate.
On the day of 185 received the fee of $
[G. H.]
Colonial Treasurer.
[ This receipt to be repeated monthly.]

SCHEDULE C.


Fees payable on Licences.
For the retail of spirituous liquors .$ 9
********
29 "" retail of raw opium ..... .$30
Per month in advance.
,, preparing opium, or selling prepared opium, or both .$20
keeping a smoking divan .$ 10


[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 : See also No. 2 of 1858.]




No. 1 of 1854.

Title. An Ordinance to raise an additional Police Rate.

[ 30th May, 1854. ]

Preamble. WHEREAS it is necessary that for a temporary period an Auxiliary Police Force
W should be kept on foot and maintained in this Colony for the preservation of
the lives and property of the inhabitants thereof :

A rate ofthree 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Honorable the Lieutenant- Gov
per cent to be
levied forthwith ernor Administering the Government of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
for the main
tenance of Council thereof, that to defray the expenses of raising and maintaining an Auxiliary
an Auxiliary
Police. Police Force in this Colony in addition to the ordinary Police rate assessed for the
current year a rate be forthwith levied of three per cent on the gross amount of the