616 THE HONGKONG GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 18TH APRIL, 1899.
Committee.
III.-Committees of Districts and Sub-districts.
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint
for Districts from time to time for each Sub-district such persons as he
and Sub-
districts.
may think fit to form a Committee for such Sub-district, and also to appoint for each District such members of the Sub-district Committees or such other persons as he may think fit, to form a Committee for such District.
Chairmen of 5. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint from Committees. time to time as Chairman of each District Committee and as Chairman of each Sub-district Committee, such member of such Committees respectively as, having regard to any recommendations of the majority of the members of such respective Committees, he may deem fit.
Publication in the
Gazette and evidence.
Rules for
new
territory.
Rules rela- ting to watchmen
and contri. butions.
Rules to be gazetted and public- ly notified locally.
Enforcement of Rules.
District and
6. Notification of the various Districts and Sub-districts and of the respective Committees thereof and of the Chair- men of such Committees shall from time to time be published in the Gazette, and the production of a copy of the Gazette containing any such notification or of any copy of such noti- fication purporting to be printed by the Government priuter shall be taken as primâ facic evidence of the matters so notified.
IV.-Rules.
7. The Governor-in-Council may, from time to time, make such Rules as he may deem expedient for the main- tenance of the peace, good order, health and cleanliness of, and for the furtherance of the good government and well-being of, the territory to which this Ordinance applies, and for the making, improvement or maintenance, in such territory or the waters thereof, of any roads, paths, harbours, piers, wharves, landing places, or beacons, and may by such Rules impose penalties not exceeding in each case teu dollars for any breach of any such Rule.
In the case of a continued breach additional penalties not exceeding ten dollars a day may be imposed in each case.
8. The Governor-in-Council may, from time to time, make such Rules as he may deem expedient for the appointment of watchmen in any District or Sub-district and for the levying in any District or Sub-district of, and the collection, recovery by legal proceedings, and safe custody of, and the keeping of accounts of, such contributions as may be re- quired for the payment of such watchmen and for other purposes connected with the due observance and enforce- ment of any Rules made under this Ordinance.
9.—(1.) All Rules made by the Governor-in-Council under this Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette in English and Chinese, and shall thereupon become as valid and binding as if inserted in this Ordinance.
(2.) Such Rules shall be publicly notified in Chinese by the Colonial Secretary in the Districts and Sub-districts subject to their operation, and copies in English and Chi- nese, certified by him as correct, shall be duly recorded in such Districts and Sub-districts, in such manner as he shall direct.
V.-Duties of Committees as regards Rules.
10. It shall be the duty of the respective District and Sub-district Committees, as the case may be, to enforce, under the supervision of such officers as the Governor may appoint, and with the assistance of the watchmen and other officers (if any) so directed by the Governor, all Rules made under this Ordinance in force in their respective Districts or Sub-districts.
VI.-Local Tribunals in Districts and Sub-districts,
11. The Governor-in-Council may establish local tri- Sub-district bunals in any Districts or Sub-districts brought under the Courts and
operation of this Ordinance with such jurisdiction as is their consti-
hereinafter set forth. Such tribunals shall be called District tution,
Courts or Sub-district Courts as the case may be. A District Court shall be presided over by the Chairman of the District Committee or such other officer as the Governor may appoint to act as President, and such President shall be assisted by the members of the District Committee or by a quorum thereof consisting of not less than three of such members.
A Sub-district Court shall be presided over by the Chair- man of the Sub-district Committee or such other officer as