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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III, No. 126.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855. -
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. 12 of 1857.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the MELOW Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Checking the spread of Venereal Disenses.
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[24th November, 1857.] Whereas it is expedient to make provision for checking the spread of Venereal Diseases within this e date. Colony Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with
Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
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I. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance, the following Words or Phrases shall have the respective Definition of Terms Meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say,-
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"Prostitute" shall mean any Woman who shall live or reside in a Registered or a Declared Brothel: "Declared Brothel" shall mean any House in which Women live or reside, or which they frequent, for the purposes of Prostitution, and which shall in any Judicial Proceedings under this Ordinance be sworn or deposed to be such by any Two Witnesses; or which shall be declared to be such, by the Registrar General.
"
Registered Brothel" shall mean any House in which Women live or are kept for the Purposes of Prostitution, and which shall be certified to be such in Writing by the Registrar General, and which shall be entered and numbered on a List or Register of such Houses to be kept by the Registrar General.
within certain Dis-
II. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no Person shall keep a Brothel within the Colony All Brothels to be send the Hongkong, unless the same be Registered, nor unless the same be within one or other of the following Registered, and to be abted to Districts or Portions of Districts, namely,-Ha-wan, from Spring Gardens, Eastward,-Sei-ing-poon, from tricts. mediate the Junction of Hollywood Road and Queen's Road West, Westward, and Tai-ping-shan, except such
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Parts of such Districts or Portions of Districts as face the Queen's Road; and if any Person shall be con- Executoted of Keeping a Brothel outside of such Districts as aforesaid, or an Unregistered Brothel within the
ame, such Person shall, for the First Offence, be sentenced to pay a Fine not exceeding One Hundred Penalties. errent Dollars, or to Imprisonment, with or without hard Labour, for a Term not exceeding Three Months, and for the Second Offence to pay a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred current Dollars, or to FATTEprisonment, with or without hard Labour, for a Term not exceeding Six Months, and for the Third RPART ence to pay a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred current Dollars, or to Imprisonment for a Term not F LADI
cceding Twelve Months: Provided always, that it may be lawful for the Magistrate before whom such R'S CI id the ne
Pender shall be brought to punish such Offender both by Fine and Imprisonment, or by one or other of ch modes according to his discretion; and nothing herein contained shall be taken to bar any Person vm indicting any Brothel whatsoever as a Nuisance.
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Provisions of this
III. Upon the occasion of any Person being for the Third Time convicted of such Offence as is Upon the third Con- KEANO Fresaid, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom such Conviction shall take place, by Warrant viction for keeping a ler his Hand, to remove all the Inmates of the House wherein such Offender shall have dwelt or resided, Brothel contrary to *d to close up such House, and forbid the same to be reinbabited, unless he shall be satisfied that the same Ordinance, Magistrate
be accupied in a proper and legal manner, and not as a Brothel within the meaning of this Ordinance, may ituated outside of the aforesaid Districts, or, either as a Registered Brothel, or in any other proper and House in which the shut up the al manner, if within the said Districts or any of them; and that every Person reinhabiting such House, same is kept. hout a License or l'ermission under the Hand of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, shall be liable to a ies, Think ally of not more than Five Hundred current Dollars, or to Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding nd under. elve Months. y Cents
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IV. The averment of Two Witnesses made on Oath or by Affirmation, within the meaning of Ordinance 7 of 1857, that any House is occupied as a Brothel, may be received as sufficient Evidence of such *t; and any Person who shall appear, act, or behave himself or herself as Master or Mistress, or as the having the Care or Management of any Brothl, shall be deemed and taken to be the Keeper Freof, and shall be liable to be punished as such, notwithstanding he or she shall not in fack bn iba
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Mode of Proof that flouse is a Brothel.