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[ 21 of 1886. ] SPIRIT LICENCES .


Public house shall mean any house or place of entertainment
where intoxicating liquors are sold by retail and may
be consumed on the premises, but shall not include
any place of entertainment kept under an adjunct
licence.

Retail sale shall mean the sale of liquors in less quantities
than two gallons as above defined .
Spirit shop shall mean any shop licensed to retail Chinese
spirits not to be consumed on the premises.
Wholesale licence shall mean a licence to sell intoxicating
liquors by the unopened cask or case, in quantities
not less than two gallons of one liquor at one time,
such liquors not to be consumed on the premises.
Distilleries.
Unlicensed 3. No person shall make, distil , or rectify any spirits, or
Llibitede pro- shall knowingly keep or bave inhis possession any still or other
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47,and utensil , or apparatus for distilling or making or rectifying
spirits, without a licence under this ordinance.
Apothecaries, It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to issue aa licence
chemists and
drugvists free of all charge to any apothecary, chemist, or druggist applying
may have
stills of cight
for the same, to keep and use on his premises , a still of not
gallons con
tents .
more than eight gallons contents for the purpose of his trade
( Orul . 8 of only, provided that every person wishing to keep such still
1844 section
3.
shall notify his intention so to do to the said Colonial Secretary,
who shall thereupon require such person to give a bond with
two sufficient sureties in the sum of one thousand dollars , that
he will not make use of such still , or suffer it to be made use
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of except for the preparation of medicines or other articles
required bonâ fide for medical purposes, and every such person
found to have such still without having entered into such bond
and obtained such licence, shall be deemed to be guilty of an
offence under this ordinance.
Licences to
distil. 4. The Colonial Secretary may issue licences to distil in the
(3 of 69. ] forın of schedule A , on each of which licences an annual fee of
one hundred and twenty dollars shall be payable in advance.
Such conditions as the Governor in Council may from time to
time determinomay be added to such licences. Every licensed
distiller may sell by wholesale the liquors he distils.
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liquors.
5. Any person who shall distil , make, import, sell, dispose
of, or deal in any adulterated intoxicating liquor shall be guilty
13 , s. 5. ] of an offence against this ordinance, and if such adulterated
liquor be injurious to health he may, on a second conviction,
be sentenced to imprisonment with or without hard labour for