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ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1844. 43


Licensing Public Houses, &c.

do hereby certify that the above A. B. of is a person of good
fame and reputation and fit and proper to be licensed to keep an inn or public house.
Witness our hands, this day of 184
1.
2.
3.




( B.)

Form of Certificate by the Chief Magistrate to authorize the granting of a License.


HONGKONG.
At the licensing meeting (or an adjournment of the licensing meeting or sessions) holden at
on the day of
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty
for the purpose of considering applications made to me for licenses to keep public houses, in pursuance
ofan ordinance of the Governor and Council intituled " An Act for licensing Public Houses, and regu
lating the retail of fermented, and spirituous liquors, in Hongkong" I
do hereby authorize the Colonial Treasurer to issue a license to A. B. of
to keep an inn, or public house at the sign of
situated in for the year commencing on the day of
and I do hereby certify that I am satisfied the said A. B. is a person of good
fame, and reputation , and is fit and proper to keep any inn or public house and also that I have taken
from the said A. B. and his sureties C. D. of and E. F. of a
recognizance in the sum of each according to the form
prescribed by the said ordinance of the Governor and Council.

Given under my hand and seal on the day of and at
the place first above written.




(C)

Form of a Recognizance.


Hongkong
to wit
Be it remembered, that on the day of 184
A. B. of C. D. of and E. F. of came
personally before me
Chief Magistrate of Police in the Colony of Hongkong and acknowledged themselves to owe to Our
Lady the Queen, to wit the said A. B. the sum of the said C. D. the sum
of and the said E. F. the sum of of lawful
current dollars of Hongkong to be respectively levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and
tenements, to the use of our said Lady the Queen Her Heirs and Successors : in case default shall be
made in the performance of any of the conditions hereunder written :

The conditions of this recognizance are such, that whereas the said A. B. is to be licensed to keep
a common-inn, ale-house, or victualling-house. and to sell ale, beer, and other malt liquors, and wine,