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44 ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1844.


Licensing Public Houses, &c.


cider, ginger beer, spruce beer, brandy, rum, and other fermented and spirituous liquors, in the house,
wherein he (or she) now dwells ( or is about to dwell) being the sign of situated at
in for twelve months, commencing on the day of
one thousand eight hundred and forty if the said A. B. do keep the
law in selling ale, beer, and other such liquors as aforesaid in his (or her) said house or appurtenances
thereunto belonging : and do not permit any person to become drunk, or supply, or permit such liquor
as aforesaid to be supplied or given to any person in a state of intoxication , or permit such person (not
being an inmate thereof) to remain in his ( or her) house or premises and do not permit any person to
play at cards dice or any other game of chance in his (or her) house or premises or to commit any
disorder therein or to remain in or upon the same tippling or drinking after the hour of
at night or on Sunday at any hour, always excepting moderate refreshment to persons who may be
bonâ fide travelling or who may be inmates of the house ; nor suffer any disorder to be committed in
his (or her) house or premises ; nor refuse to admit a Magistrate, or constable into any part of the
said house or premises at any hour and do maintain good order and rule therein , then the said
recognizance to be void, otherwise to remain in full force.

Taken and acknowledged the day and year above written before me.

L. S.




(D.)

Form of License.


Hongkong
to wit
Whereas A. B. of hath deposited in this office a certificate from the
Chief Magistrate of Police dated the day of
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty authorizing a license to be issued to the said A. B. to keep an inn,
or public house at the sign of situated at and
stating that the said Chief Magistrate of Police has taken from the said A. B. and two sureties a recog
nizance in the sum of each as required by law, and whereas the said A. B. hath
paid into my office the sum of as the duty on such license now I the Colonial
Treasurer of the Colony of Hongkong in virtue of the powers vested in me by Ordinance No. 11 of 1844
of the Governor and Council do hereby license authorize and empower the said A. B. to keep a common
inn, ale-house, or victualling-house, and to sell and retail in the house in which he ( or she) now
dwelleth (or is about to dwell) being the sign of situated at
and in the appurtenances thereunto belonging but not elsewhere all beer, and
other malt liquors, or wine, cider, ginger beer. spruce beer, brandy, rum, or other fermented , or
spirituous liquors, and this license shall continue in force from the said day of
until the day of next ensuing both
days inclusive and no longer, and also provided it be not forfeited in the meantime according to the
provisions of the aforesaid ordinance of the Governor and Council.
Given under my hand and seal at Victoria this day of
one thousand eight hundred and forty
N. 0. L. S.
Colonial Treasurer,
Registered P. Q.