Sessional_Paper_1898 — Page 632

Action on account of liquors.

(L) of 14. 17.)

Taking

pledzes.

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MOORIYAL 211 14. 19.]

Suspreted

prendises.

(11 of 11.3.)

Drinking in unlicensed

place.

11 of 14, 36.2

Payment of workmen.

*11 of 44. 37-!

Wholesale and

grocers

licences,

How Gorained.

Tower to Inaky rules.

Chinese spirit

chops.

fit of 44.

27-34.]

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order, on the secoud conviction, that any fine imposed on such offender, not exceeding the amount of his recognisances, be paid by his sureties.

22. No licensed publican shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of liquors, unless such debt shall bond fide have been contracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for liquors be allowed where the liquors bona fide delivered at one time shall not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor shall any amount of debt whatsoever incurred by any seaman or soldier in Her Majesty's service for liquors be allowed: provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent innkeepers from keeping an account with lodgers and travellers, in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.

23. No licensed person shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever ex- cept money.

24. Every licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures legalised in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint, or except when the liquor is sold in bottles, and shall also measure such liquor in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.

25. If any person be convicted of unlawfully retailing ang intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person, and the house, lodging, shop, or warehouse where such offence shall have been committed, aud any court or yard connected therewith, shall be liable to be searched at any time of the day or night, by any Police officer, with or without warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof shall be occupied by the person so convicted.

26. Whenever any Police officer shall find any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor shall be sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale shall not on demand be produced to such Police officer, it shall be lawful for such Police officer to apprehend all such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, upon conviction before any Magistrate, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person shall inform against such unlicensed person or voluntarily become a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.

27. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by retail.

Wholesale and Grocer's licences. Spirit shops.

28. Every person desirous of obtaining a wholesale or a grocer's licence to sell intoxi- cating liquors shall apply to the Colonial Secretary, who may in his discretion grant to the applicant a licence in the form of schedule L or Maccording to the nature of his application, on production of a receipt from the Treasurer for a fee of one hundred and twenty dollars. Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.

29. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, alter, amend and repeal regulations and conditions for the granting of wholesale and grocer's licences. Such conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, may alter the above scale of fees, may regulate the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the hours and conditions of sale, and all other matters connected with such licences. All such regulations when published in the Government Gazette shall have the force of law.

30. The Colonial Secretary may grant a licence in the form of schedule N to any person to retail Chinese spirits, such Chinese spirits not to be consumed on the premises where they are sold, and the holder of such licence shall exhibit conspicuously and perma- uently in frout of his licensed place of business his name and number and the nature of such licence, on a sign, the size and design of which shall be approved by the Colonial Se- cretary, and the fee of ten dollars monthly shall be paid in advance by each licensee to the