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punished with a fine not less than 8 dol
lars and not exceeding 80 dollars.
Compliance with the injunctions given
by the Policemaster or the Superior Autho.
rity according to 5 II, and the furnishing
of the statements mentioned in s B are
enforced besides, if necessary, with daily
fines of from l to 5 dollars.
10.
Every license issued or renewed under
this Ordinance must, before being used,
be shown to the Policemas ter concerned,
who shall note upon it the date when it
was produced.
The Police have officially to see that this
Ordinance is not transgressed, but COM
plants of unlicensed retailing may also
be laid by any person entitled to carry on
the kind of business in question.
10.
Suits concerning tranSgressl0nS OF this
ordinance are to be dealt with By the
Police Courts.
CHAPTER ".
CONCERNING THE TAXES ON RUM
SHOPS AND PUBLIC HOUSES.
A tax of from $500 to 5000 shall be
paid yearly for every rum shop, a tax OF
from $50 to 800 for every license held
under 5 3, and a tax of from $50 to S72 for
every public house These taxes are to be
fixed by the Government and the Colonial
Council within the abovenamed maxima
and minima for 3 years at a time. These
taxes are to be paid quarterly on the 31st
March, the 30th of June, the 3Oth of
September, and the 31St of December, the
first time with an amount prOportlonate TO
that part of the Quarter during which the
shop or public house has been licensed.
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it has become due, payment is to be
enforced by levy, and the business of the
shop or public house is to be stopped until
the tax is paid. For the Policemaster's
declaration regarding a petition for a rum
shop or public. house license, or for noting
the said license, no fee is to be paid.
q.
OF the tax paid on Ium shops and tor
the licenses mentioned under 5 3, $3.50 pa.
and $50 D.. a., respectively for each license,
accrue to the Rum Fund. The remainder
Of these taxes and likewise also the whole
of the tax on public houses falls to the
Colonial Treasury, into which also are to
be paid the fines imposed under this OF
dinance.
CHAPTER V.
CoNCERING THE TIME AT WHICH THIS
ORDINANCE IS TO COME NTO FORCE AND
THE REPEAL OF PREVIOUS ENACTMENTs.
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This Ordinance, which repeats the Or
dinance of 18th November 1915 concern
ing the sale Of sp~irituous liquors and con-
corning rum shops in the towns of the
Island of st. Croix, shall come into force
at such time as the Government may fix,
after the rum licenses issued under the
older enartmentS shall have expired, but
latest on the 1st January 1887.
REMARKS.
The discussion in the Colonial CourclPs
Meeting of 9th January 1882 on the Draft
Of Ordinance, introduced by private lnltla-
tive, prohibiting the sale of rum on sugar
estates in St. CrOix and containing altera.
tons of the Ordinance of 18th NOvem Der
1875 concerning the sale of s%pirituous
liquors and concerning rum shops in the
towns of the Island of st. Croix was
closed by a resolution passed in the Coun.
cips Meeting 10th July 1888 referring It
to the Administration to take under con-
sideration the question of a better regula.
ton of the trade in and sale of rum and
other spirituous liquors in st. Croix, ana
eventually to bring forward proposals
thereon. In consequence of this resolution
a Commission, consisting of Z Members
under the presidency of Chief Justice
Andersen, was appointed on the Sth OF
March in the same year to take the ABOVE