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1386 ORDINANCES Nos. 9 AND 10 OF 1875 .


Naval Stores. Legislative Commissioners.


The following are the regulations which are continued in force by the above Order
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in Council :

1. The fee for each licence to use or exercise the trade or business of a dealer
in marine stores, or a dealer in old metals, shall be $ 15 per mensem, pay
able in advance .

2. All persons who shall trade or deal in marine stores, or old metals , shall
have their names with the words " Dealer in Marine Stores, or Old Metals ,"
painted distinctly, in letters not less than 33 inches in length, on a board
to be hung up conspicuously in front of their shops.

3. The said houses may only be open, from the 1st October to the 1st April,
from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.; and from the 1st April to the 1st October, from 5
A.M. to 7 P.M.

4. No article of metal, or any marine store, shall be purchase from a child
apparently under 14 years of age.

5. The name of every seller, the house number, and district in which he dwells ,
together with an intelligible description of the article and time at which it
was sold, with price paid, shall be entered in the books of the shop, which
shall be kept in such form and manner as may, from time to time, be
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directed by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
6. No escapes through the roof of a licensed house shall be allowed.

7. The proprietor of each licensed house shall be held responsible for any breach
of these regulations , or of the Ordinance.




No. 10 of 1875 .

Title. An Ordinance for compiling a new Edition of the Ordinances of the
[See Ordinances
Nos. 6 and 17 of Colony.
18-9.)
[ 2nd September, 1875. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to prepare a new edition of the Ordinances of Hong
W kong omitting all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances that have expired, have
had their effect, or have been expressly repealed or disallowed : -Be it enacted by the
Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

Authority to 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor to issue his commission to any two or more
Governor to
appoint com-. persons directing and empowering them to prepare a new edition of the Ordinances of
missioners to
compile and Hongkong, and, from time to time, in case of the death, refusal, or incapacity to act of
print the law
ofHongkong.
any of the said commissioners, to issue a supplemental commission empowering some
other person to act in the stead of such commissioner.

Commissioners 2. The commissioners are hereby authorised to prepare and arrange for publica
to prepare and
arrange Laws for
publication and tion the said edition , omitting all such Ordinances, sections, and parts of Ordinances