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4. Give the quantity of each kind of alcoholic liquor which you sold during 1897——

(a) To firms and persons in the Colony.

(6) To firms and persons outside the Colony.

5. Do you import alcoholic liquors from places in China, and if so, give a list of those so imported by you and the quantity of each kind imported during 1897.

6. Give a list from your books of the firins and persons in the Colony whom you have supplied with alcoholic liquors, giving the kind of liquor, also the quantity, supplied

to eacb.

[The replies to this letter were to be treated as confidential.-Secretary.]

The Chinese translation of the Questions sent to Chinese holders of Distillery

Licences.

委查香港酒業委員經歷鮑 號東主

知悉照得現奉

明切切特諗 本委員所自知而秘密者决不宣示於外爾等毌庸見疑務須早日覆 須按下開所問各款逐一詳細覆明繕列一單爲要至於所覆各款係 督憲札委查察本港發售各式烈酒無論自然自製販或運各酒均

一千八百九十八年

計開

一凡蒸製各式酒均須詳細清列一單

月

賬部抄出

四凡一千八百九十七年內所發售各烈酒若干詳細清列一單 卽賣與本港某店某人若干 並賣與港外某店某人若干 均照 三凡一千八百九十七年內所蓀製各烈酒每欸若干詳細淸列一單

某人逐一詳明清 五.中國內地會有烈酒運來否如有則須於一千八百九十七年內運 來各式烈酒若干詳細淸列一單 至若運來之酒質與何處某店

二凡蒸製各式酒所用各物料詳細淸列一單