THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JUNE, 1867.
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Governor to appro- priate a certain
the payment of
II. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain proportion not exceeding Power given to the three-fourths, of all Fines and Penalties recovered in any Court to payment of such Rewards, Bounties and Gratuities as he may from time to time to any Member of the amount of Fines for Police Force or to any Constable, for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury Rewards to the Police sustained in the execution of his Duty, or to such private Persons or Informers, as the and to Informers. Governor may deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of Crime, or the apprehension of Offenders.
Governor to frame Regulations.
III. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to frame Power given to the such Regulations to be enforced by such Fines and Penalties as to him shall seem fit, for the removal of Night Soil and the Depositing of rubbish and for the more effectual carrying out of this Ordinance. Such Regulations shall be duly published in the Gazette, and from and after such publication to have the same force and effect as if the same had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
Ordinance No. G'of 1882 amended.
IV. Section XII of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the addition Section XII of of the words, "with or without Hard Labor" immediately after the words "Three Months" in the Fifth Line of the said Section,
Ordinance No. 9 of
V. Section XXI of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended by substituting, Section XXI of for the words "Three Months" at the end of the said Section, the words "Six Months 1862 amended. with or without Hard Labor.”
in certain cases.
VI. Every Male Person who, subsequently to the commencement of this Ordinance Juvenile Offenders to shall be charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with be privately whipped
any Offence having been an aider, abettor, counseller, or procurer, in the Commission of which now is or hereafter may be by Law deemed or declared to be Simple Larceny, or punishable as Simple Larceny, and whose Age at the period of the Commission or attempted Commission of such Offence, shall not, in the Opinion of the Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the Age of Sixteen Years, shall on conviction thereof whether summarily or otherwise be liable by the Sentence of such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to any other Punishment which may now be inflicted for such Offence: Provided that such Sentence shall specify the number of Strokes which shall in no case exceed Twenty, and Provided that the Instrument used shall be a Rattan.
Changers to be
VII. From and after the First Day of August, 1867, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese Money- Chinese to act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously Licensed. obtained a License to do so from the Registrar General, which License shall remain in force for One Year, and for which the Sum of Five Dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
licensed Person acting
VIII. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of of act as a Money-Changer Penalty on an Un- in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a License, or after the expira- as Money Changer. tion of the same, or who shall violate any of the Conditions contained in the said License shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Three Months.
1857 so far as it relates
IX. The Provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as they relate to Night Ordinance No. 9 of Passes shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to Chinese Women, except so far as to Passes to be appli- the same may authorize the infliction of any Corporal punishment, or exposure in the cable to Women. stocks.
Animals injurious to
City of Victoria.
X. The keeping of Pigs, or of other Animals likely to be injurious to the public No Pigs or other health within the city of Victoria without a Special License from the Registrar General the public health to is strictly prohibited, and any Person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the be kept within the Peace of keeping a Pig or other such Animal in the said City of Victoria, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Five Dollars, and in default of payment shall be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Days, and the said Pig or other Animal shall also be forfeited.
Liquor, &c. may be
Persons selling the
XI. Any Person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any House or Shop in the Adulterated and Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food unwholesome Food or in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof seized; Penalty on before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months; and in case the Person convicted shall be a licensed Spirit Dealer, or Boarding-house Keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his License.
same.