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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18тп FEBRUARY, 1865.
put or lay at any Place, or cast or throw at or upon or otherwise apply to any Person, any corrosive Fluid or any destructive or explosive Substance, with intent, in any of the Cases aforesaid, to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable any Person, or to do some grie- vous bodily Harm to any Person, shall, whether any bodily Injury be effected or not, be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
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near a Building, &c.,
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to do
XXX. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously place, or throw in, into, upon, Placing Gunpowder against, or near any Building, Ship, or Vessel any Gunpowder or other explosive with intent Substance, with intent to do any bodily injury to any Person, shall, whether or not any bodily Injury to any Explosion take place, and whether or not any bodily Injury be effected, be guilty of Felo- ny, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Terin not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
with intent to inflict
XXXI. Whosoever shall set or place, or cause to be set or placed, any Spring Gun, Setting Spring Guns Man Trap, or other Engine calculated to destroy human Life or to inflict grievous bodily grievous bodily Harm. Harm, with the intent that the same or whereby may the same destroy or inflict grievous bodily Harm upon a Tresspasser or other Person coming in contact therewith, shall be guil- ty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour; and whosoever shall knowingly and wilfully perinit any such Spring Gun, Man Trap, or other Engine which may have been set or placed in any place then being in or afterwards coming into his possession or occupation by some other Person to continue so set or placed, shall be deemed to have set and placed such Gun, Trap, or Engine with such intent as aforesaid: Provided that nothing in this Section contained shall extend to make it illegal to set or place any Gun or Trap such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the intent of destroying Vermin: Provided also, that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from Sunset to Sunrise, any Spring Gun, Man Trap, or other Engine which shall be set or placed, or caused or continued to be set or placed, in a Dwelling-house, for the protection thereof.
&c., injuring Persons by furious driving.
XXXII. Whosoever, having the Charge of any Carriage or Vehicle, shall, by wanton Drivers of Carriages, or furious Driving or Racing, or other wilful Misconduct, or by wilful Neglect, do or cause to be done any bodily Harm to any Person whatsoever, shall be guilty of a Misdemea- nor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.
Assaults.
&c., in the discharge
XXXIII. Whosoever shall, by Threats or Force, obstruct or prevent, or endea- Obstructing or Tour to obstruct or prevent, any Clergyman or other Minister in or from celebrating assaulting Clergyman, Divine Service or otherwise officiating in any Church, Chapel, Meeting House, or other of his Duties. place of Divine Worship, or in or from the performance of his duty in the lawful Burial of the Dead in any Churchyard or other Burial Place, or shall strike or offer any vio- lence to, or shall, upon any Civil Process, or under the pretence of executing any Ci- vil Process, arrest any Clergyman or other Minister who is engaged in, or to the know- ledge of the Offender is about to engage in, any of the Rites or Duties in this Section aforesaid, or who to the knowledge of the Offender, shall be going to perform the same or returning from the performance thereof, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.
Assaulting a
XXXIV. Whosoever shall assault and strike or wound any Police Magistrate, Magistrate, on Justice of the Peace, Officer, or other Person whatsoever lawfully anthorized, in or on Account of his pre- account of the exercise of his Duty in or concerning the preservation of any Vessel in serving Wreck. Distress, or of any Vessel, Goods, or Effects wrecked, standed, or cast on Shore, or lying under Water, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be lia- ble, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not ex- ceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.