42 ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1844.
Licensing Public Houses, &c.
Payment of 32. (37.) And be it further enacted, that any master or other person employing
wages where
liquors are sold. journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers , who shall pay or cause any payment to
be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in or at any house in which
any of the liquors as aforesaid shall be sold by retail, shall forfeit and pay for every
such offence, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner.
Recovery of fines And be it enacted, that fines and penalties herein mentioned shall (except where it is
and penalties.
otherwise specially provided) be recovered before any Magistrate of Police sitting singly, or
any two, or more Justices ofthe Peace, in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844,
entitled " An Ordinance to regulate summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace, and
"to protect Justices in the execution of their duty." [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1858. ]
As to licensesnot 33. And be it further enacted , that until the said first day of July, every license
completed or
issued before
commencement hitherto issued in Hongkong shall be deemed and taken to have issued , and shall have
ofthis Ordinance.
the same force and effect, as any such license issued under this Ordinance, and all and
every person, place, matter, or thing, shall in respect of, or in relation to every such
license, be subject and liable to such and the like laws, rules , regulations, provisoes,
conditions , powers , jurisdictions, fines, forfeitures, penalties , and proceedings , as herein
before provided, with respect to licenses issued , and all other things directed in respect
thereof, and by virtue of this present Ordinance. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1858.]
[ New Sections 38 to 40 added by Ordinance No. 7 of1858. The whole Ordinance
except sections 38 & 39 repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886. Sections 38 & 39
repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1887.]
SCHEDULES
TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
( 4.)
Form of application for a License to keep an Inn or Public house with certificate of character.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF POLICE OF HONGKONG.
I A. B. (state the trade or occupation) now residing at in the
Colony of Hongkong do hereby give notice that it is my intention to apply at the next licensing meet
ing to for a license to
sell, and retail ale, beer, and other malt liquors, or wine, cider, ginger beer, spruce beer, brandy, rum,
or other fermented, or spirituous liquors, in the house, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situated
at (here describe the house proposed to be licensed, specifying the situation of it ; the person ofwhom
rented, the present occupier, whether now licensed ; and if so under what sign) and which I intend to
keep as an inn or public house. I am (married, or unmarried as the case may be :) and I have held a
license (if before licensed state how many years)
I further give notice that I propose C. D. of
and E. F. of as my sureties to enter with me
into the required recognizance.
Given under my hand this day of 184. We
the undersigned householders residing within the town of
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