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410 ORDINANCES Nos . 6 AND 7 OF 1858.


Peace ofthe Colony - Amendment. Licensing Public Houses, &c. —Amendment.


No. 6 of 1858.

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857.

[ 27th March, 1858. ]

E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
BE advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in the manner following, that is to
say :
Power to alter The hours specified in section 5 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 may be, from time to
hours.
time, altered by His Excellency in Executive Council ; and every such alteration , when
so made, shall be forthwith notified, in English and Chinese, in the Hongkong Govern
ment Gazette .



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1864. ]




No. 7 of 1858.

An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 .

[ 5th April, 1858. ]
E it ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
B
advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Amendment of 1. Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 is hereby amended, by substituting the words "three
Ordinance No. 11
of 1814.
hundred current dollars," in the room of the words " fifty dollars," in sections 7 and 8
of the same : And also by omitting section 33 of the said Ordinance : And also by

inserting after section 25 of the same, the following new sections, to be respectively num
bered from 26 to 30 both inclusive, that is to say :
Chinese licences. "26. The foregoing provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to Chinese
people licensed to retail spirituous liquors to Chinese people only.
Colonial Secreta "27. A licence to retail spirituous liquors for one year to Chinese people only
ry may grant
Chinese licences, may be granted to a Chinaman only by the Colonial Secretary, who shall
have first satisfied himself of the fitness of the said Chinaman, and that he
hath duly paid, as he is hereby required to pay, into the Colonial Treasury,
the first monthly instalment of the year's fee for the said licence.
$120 per annum "23. The said fee shall be one hundred and twenty current dollars per annum,
to be the licence
fee. payable in advance, by even monthly instalments.
Conditions of " 29. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to require, by way of con
the licence.
dition inserted in any such licence, that the holder thereof do exhibit
conspicuously and permanently in front of the place of business thereby
licensed, his name and number, and the nature of the said licence ; and also