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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH FEBRUARY, 1870.
Application of Penalty for
Ordinance
2nd. If any Chinese Passenger Ship shall fail to clear out and proceed to Sea, within the Period specified in the License granted under this Ordinance, or within such extended Period as aforesaid;
3rd. If the Owners or Charterers of a Chinese Passenger Ship shall fail forthwith to appoint a Master, Mate or other Officer to be approved as aforesaid, in the Place of any Master, Mate or other Officer discharged under Section VII; It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke, the License granted under this Ordinance in respect of such Chinese Passenger Ship, and to order that the said Ship be scized and detained until the said License and the Certificate of the Emigration Officer, (if already granted) be delivered up to be cancelled.
X. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, to apply the whole or any part of the Penalty recoverable in Case of the non- Breach of this Observance or non-Performance of the Regulations of this Ordinance under the Provisions of Section 4 of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," towards the Expenses of reconveying to their Homes intending Emigrants by any Vessel in respect of which the License granted under this Ordinance shall have been revoked in manner herein before provided.
recoverable under the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855."
Power to
Vessels from
XI. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from Time to exempt certain Time, to exempt from the Operation of this Ordinance, any Mail Steamers or other Vessels which are subject to the Provisions of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855;" provided that the Chinese Passen- gers proceeding in such Vessels be Free Emigrants and under no Contract of Service whatever.
the Operation of this Ordinance.
Suspending Clause.
XII. This Ordinance shall not come into Operation until Her Majesty's Confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor..
Title.
Power given
frame Orders.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof. to enable the Governor to co-operate with the Chinese Authorities for the Suppression of Piracy.
BE
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E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Adrice
of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from Time to to the Governor Time to frame such Orders to be enforced by such Fines and in Council to Penalties as the Governor in Council shall deem expedient, in- cluding Forfeiture of Vessel, for preventing all or any Description of Fishing Vessels and Trading Junks from carrying all or any Description of Arms or Munitions of War, including Stink Pots, and the Governor in Council shall also have Power from Time to Time to alter and amend such Orders or revoke the same or any Part thereof: Provided that such personal Penalties, irrespective of Forfeiture of Vessel, shall not exceed in any One Case a Fine of Five hundred Dollars or Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for One Year.
Orders to be published in Gazette.
Offences how triable.
II. Such Orders shall be duly published in the Gazette and from and after such Publication shall have the same Force and Effect as if the same had been specially enacted herein.
III. Offences under this Ordinance shall be triable in a summary Manner before a Police Magistrate and all Fines imposed under this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a like Manner.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following List of Jurors for the Year commencing on the 1st of March, 1870, as revised and amended by His Excellency The GOVERNOR and the Legislative Council, is published for general
information.
By Command,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 25th February, 1870.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.