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Return ordered—
Showing (1) the hour of closing licensed premises prescribed in each Burgh or County in Scotland in which such hour is earlier than11 p.m., and the date of the adoption of such earlier hour; (2) in the case of each Burgh and County in which an earlier hour than 11 p.m. was prescribed as the hour of closing in 1888 or 1889, the number of Arrests for Drunkenness in the twelve months immediately preceding and in the twelve months immediately succeeding the adoption of such earlier hour in such Burgh or County; and (3) the names of each Burgh and County in which the licensing authority under the Public Houses, Hours of Closing (Scotland) Act having been empowered to fix an earlier hour, 11 p.m. has been retained as the hour of closing."—(Dr Cameron.)