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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1858 . 411


Licensing Public Houses, &c.- Amendment.


(if it be thought fit) that he do make and send in to the said Colonial Se
cretary on the first day of every month of the said licence, a full and true
statement in writing of the names and quantities of spirituous liquors
prepared, sold , and retailed by him during the month then next immedi
ately preceding.
"30. If the holder of any such Chinese licence shall offend against the tenor Penalty thereof.
thereof, he shall, for the first offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding the
sum of one hundred current dollars ; and for a second offence, to the for
feiture of his said licence :"

And also by re-numbering the remaining sections of the same Ordinance, to the
end, beginning with section 26 which shall be re-numbered 31 and so on in due arith
metical order : And also by inserting in section 28 (re-numbered 33) , after the words
" two gallons ," the words " or (in the case of a Chinese seller or retailer) of any quan
tity of spirituous liquors. " And also by omitting so much of section 32 (re-numbered
37) as directs the recovery of fines and penalties before a Magistrate or Justices ; and
also by inserting after the said last -mentioned section the several new sections following,
to be numbered respectively from 38 to 40 both inclusive ; that is to say --
:
"38. No person shall keep a public billiard table, skittle ground, or ninepin or Billiard tables,
skittles, and
ninepin or Low
bowling alley, without having previously obtained a licence thereto from ling alleys.
the Colonial Secretary, which licence shall endure for one year from the
day of its date ; and for every such licence there shall be paid into the
Colonial Treasury, in advance, the fee of seventy-five current dollars.
"39. Any person keeping a table, ground, or alley, contrary to section 38 shall Penalty.
be liable, for every such offence, to pay a fine not exceeding the sum of
two hundred current dollars.
"40. All licence fees and instalments of licence fees payable under this Ordi Proceedings.
nance, and unpaid at the days or times appointed for payment thereof, and
also all fines, money penalties, and costs incurred under this Ordinance,
may be sued for, recovered , and enforced, according to any Law for the
time being in force for regulating summary proceedings before a Stipen
diary Magistrate or Petty Sessions ' Court ;" — ་
And also by inserting in the title of the same Ordinance after the words " Public Repeal ofOrdi
nances No. 4 of
Houses," the words " and certain games :" And Ordinances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 1845, and No. 4
of 1853.
of 1853, are hereby repealed.
2. This Ordinance shall come into effect forthwith, yet not so as to affect any Operation of Or
dinance .
licence heretofore granted , until the expiry there
3. In every reprinted copy of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, the amendments herein Future reprints
of the amended
before specified in respect of the same, shall be made by the printer before publishing Ordinance.
the same : And it shall not be afterwards necessary to print or reprint this Ordinance .


NOTE.- This Ordinance is printed in small type as Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 has
been repealed.