LICENSING PUBLIC HOUSES, & c. -- AMENDMENT ORDINANCE

LICENSING PUBLIC HOUSES, & c. -- AMENDMENT ORDINANCE

Licensing Public Houses, &c. -- Amendment.

No. 6 of 1858.

An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844.

[5th April, 1858.]

Be it ordained and puacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong,
with the
advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Amendment of 1. Ordinance No, 11 of 1844 is hereby amended, by
substituting the words 'three

Ordinance No. li
of >ss~. hundred current dollars,' in the room of the words 'fiFty
dollars,' in sections 7 and 8
of the same: And also by omitting section 83 of the said Ordinance : And
also by
inserting after section 25 of the sumo, the following now sections, to be
respectively num--
bored from 26 to 80 both inclusive, that is to say:-

Chinese licences.

Colonial 8ocretn
1'y privy grant
Cblneso licences.

x`120 per annum
to be the licence
Y ce.
Conditions of
t be licence.

'26, The foregoing provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to
Chinese,
people licensed to retail spirituous liquors to Chinese people only.

'Q7, A licence to retail spirituous liquors for one year to Chinese
people only
may be granted to a Chinaman only by the Colonial Secretary, who shall
have first satisfied himself of the fitness o£ the said Chinaman, and
that-h8
hath duly paid, as he is hereby required to pay, into the Colonial
Treasury-,
the first monthly instalment of the year's fee for the said licence.

'28. The said fee shall be ono hundred and twenty current dollars per
annum,
payable in advance, by even monthly instalments.

'29. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to require, by way of
con-
dition. inserted in any such licence, that the holder thereof do exhibit
conspicuously and permanently in front of the place of business thereby
licensed, his name and .ryimber, and the nature of. the said licence; and
also
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1858.

Licensing Public Houses, 4c..--Amendmenll.

(if it be thought fit) that he do make and send in to the said Colonial
Se-
cretary on the first dfiy of every month of the said licence, a full and
true
statement in writing of the names and quantities of spirituous liquors
prepared, sold, and retailed by him during the month then next immedi-
ately preceding.
'30. If the holder of any such Chinese licence shall offend against the
tenor
thereof, he shall, for the first offence, be liable to a fine not
exceeding the
sum of one hundred current dollars ; and for a second offence, to the for-
feiture of his said licence:'-

And also by re-numbering the remaining sections of the same Ordinance, to
the
end, beginning with section °6 which sball lie ro-nmnbored 31 and so on
in due arith-
metical order: And also by inserting; in section 28 (re-numbored 33),
after the words
'°two gallons,' the words 'or (in the case of a Chinese seller or
retailer) of any quan-
tity of spirituous liquors.' And also by omitting so much of section 32
(re-lnlmbered
37) as directs the recovery of fines and penalties before a llagistratc
or Justices ; and
also by inserting after the said last-mentioned section the several new
sections following;,
to be numbered respectively front 38 to 40 both inclusive ; that is to
say :-

'38. No person shall keep a. public billiard table, skittle ground, or
llillepin or
bowling alley, without having previously obtained it licence thereto front
the Colonial Secretary, which licence shall endure for one year from the
day of its date ; and for every, such licence there ;hall be paid into the
Colonial Treasury, in advance, the fee of seventy-five current dollars.

'39. Any person keeping a table, ground, or alley, contrary to section 38
shall. renaity.
be liable, for every such offence, to pay a fine not exceeding the sun i
of
two hundred current dollars.
'40. All licence fees and instalments of licence fees payable under this
Ordi- Proceedings,
nance, and unpaid at the days or times appointed for payment thereof, and
also all filles, lnolley penalties, and costs incurred under this
Ordinance,
lnay be sued for, recovered, and enforced, according to any ]law for the
time being in force for regulating; summary proceedings before a Stipen-
diary Magistrate or Petty Sessions' Court;'-
And also by inserting in the title of the same Ordinance after the words
'Public Repeal of0rd;-
nances No. 9 of
Ilonses,' the words 'arid certain games:' And Ordinances No. 4 of 1845,
tend No. 4 1845 and Ne.4
of 1865.
-of 1853, are hereby repealed.

2. This Ordinance shall come into effect forthwith, yet not so as to
affect any
licence heretofore granted, until the expiry thereof.

3. In every reprinted copy of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, the amendments
herein-
'before specified in respect of the same, shall be made by the printer
before publishing
the same : And it shall not be afterwards necessary to print or reprint
this Ordinance.

Penalty thereof.

NOTE.-This Ordinance is printed in squall type as O2dinance 110. 11 of
1844 -has
been repealed.

Billiard tables,
skittles, nnU
ninepin or bow..

uug nlieys.

Operation of Or-
dinance.

Future reprints,
of the amended
Ordinance.
410

Amendment of Ordinance No.11 of 1844.
Chinese licences.
Colonial Secretary may grant Chinese licences.
$120 per annum to be the licence fee.
Conditions of the licence.
Penalty thereof.
Billiard tables, skittles, and ninepin or bowling alleys.
Penalty.
Proceedings.
Repeal of Ordinances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853.
Operation of Ordinance.
Future reprints of the amended Ordinance.

410

Amendment of Ordinance No.11 of 1844.
Chinese licences.
Colonial Secretary may grant Chinese licences.
$120 per annum to be the licence fee.
Conditions of the licence.
Penalty thereof.
Billiard tables, skittles, and ninepin or bowling alleys.
Penalty.
Proceedings.
Repeal of Ordinances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853.
Operation of Ordinance.
Future reprints of the amended Ordinance.

https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/125

1890

v1

No. 7 of 1858

2