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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1870.
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO
VICTORIA REGINE.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 2 of 1870.
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.
[30th March, 1870.]
BB of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice
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frame Orders.
I. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from Time to Power given Time to frame such Orders to be enforced by such Fines and to the Governor Penalties as the Governor in Council shall deem expedient, in- in Council to 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 Casc a Fine of Five hundred Dollars or Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for One Year.
II. Such Orders shall be duly published in the Gazette and Orders to be. from and after such Publication shall have the same Force and published in Effect as if the same had been specially enacted herein.
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III. Offences under this Ordinance shall be triable in a summary Offences how Manner before a Police Magistrate and all Fines imposed under triable. this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a like Manner.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 30th Day of March, 1870.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO
VICTORIE REGINE,
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 3 or 1870.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for establishing a Chinese Hospital to be supported by Voluntary Contributions, and for erecting the same into an Eleemosynary Corporation.
[30th March, 1870.] WHEREAS it has been proposed by the said Governor His
Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL to found a Chinese Hospital for the Care and Treatment of the indigent Sick to be supported by Voluntary Contributions; And Whereas Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA has been graciously pleased by Way of Endowment of the said Hospital to grant a Piece of Crown Land as a Site for the Erection thereof and also to authorize the Payment out of the Public Funds of the Colony of a Donation of Fifteen thousand Dollars towards the Cost and Expenses of erecting and maintaining the same; And Whereas the several Persons whose Names are set out and contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance are Donors to the Funds of the said intended Hospital, and have formed themselves into a Committee for the Purpose of carrying out the Objects aforesaid; And Whereas for the better Accom- plishment thereof they have applied to His Excellency the Gov- ernor to grant to them an Ordinance of Incorporation which His said Excellency has consented to do under and subject to the Conditions and Provisions hereinafter contained; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the- Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
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