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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30тH APRIL, 1892.
BILL ENTITLED
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AN ORDINANCE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND INCORPORATION OF THE CHINESE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN COMMONLY KNOWN AS 'THE PÓ LEUNG KUK.'"The Registrar General moved the first reading of the Bill.'
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 25th April, 1892.
Read and confirmed, this 25th day of April, 1892.
A. M. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 195.
The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 25th April, 1892.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Repent of
pecticans 44 nd 45 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1885.
Subetubal section.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 4 of 1865, relating to Offences against the person.
BT
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Sections 44 and 45 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 are hereby repealed, except as to anything heretofore duly done thereunder, and except so far as may be necessary for the purpose of supporting and continuing any proceeding takon or of prosecuting or punishing any person for any offence . committed before the passing of this Ordinance.
2. In lieu of the said section 44 shall be inserted and substituted as section 44 the words following, that is to
say:-
·Whosoever shall carually know and abuse any girl under the age of 12 years, whether he is married to her or not, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the Court to be imprisoned for life or for any less term with or without hard labour,”
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