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rmation of a Fund for the purpose of building, fitting up, and maintaining such Hospital, and enlarging e same from Time to Time as may be required; and all Fees directed to be levied and paid by Section All, in case of non-payment, shall be sued for and recovered by the Registrar General, who shall pay the
me into the Colonial Treasury.
XVII. Every Keeper of a Licensed Boarding House' for Seamen shall furnish to the Harbour Keepers of Licensed Master, once in every Week, a List of Seamen then resident in his House, and shall report in such List as
to Boarding House the state of Health of each Seaman so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every Seaman Master with Weekly furnish the Harbour who may be reported or may be otherwise discovered to be affected with a Venereal Disease, unless Lists of the Seamen then under Medical Treatment, shall be removed by Warrant under the Hand of the Harbour Master to a resident in their Hospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Medical Attendants thereof, discharged as cured, and Houses.
shall have obtained from such Medical Attendants a Certificate of his having been so discharged, which Diseased Seamen to Certificate he shall produce and shew to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the Expenses be removed to Hospi- which may be incurred in and about the Maintenance and Treatment of any such Seaman in such Hospital, L dull be a Debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such Seaman; or, in Case of the Keeper of the Boarding House in which such Seaman shall have resided before his removal to Hospital not having reported, or having made a false Report as to the state of Health of such Seaman, then such Expenses shall be paid by such Boarding House Keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Colonial Surgeon or his Deputy, or the Medical Attendants of the Hospital to which such Seaman may be removed, that the Disease with which he may be affected is of such a Nature as that the Keeper of the Boarding House could, with ordinary and reasonable Observation, have ascertained its Existence; and in all Cases sach Expenses shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf · of the Hospital.
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XVIII. If any Seaman affected with a Venereal Disease, and reported so to be by the Keeper of Penalty for offering the Boarding House in which such Seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any Hindrance or Obstruc- any obstruction to Re- tion to his Removal to Hospital; or, having been removed to Hospital, shall attempt to leave the same "
moval to Hospital, &c. before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his Certificate of Discharge when required by the Harbour Master or his Deputy authorized to demand the same; or being affected with a Venereal Disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the Keeper of the Boarding House in which he may be residing, then, and in every such Case, such Seaman so offending shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five current Dollars, or to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for any Time not exceeding One Month.
XIX. The Master of any Merchant Ship, before shipping any Seaman, may require that such Seaman Masters of Ships dall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon or other Medical Officer who may be appointed for such Purpose before shipping Sea- connection with the Harbour Master's Department, and who is hereby required to attend at stated men may require that Hours in the Forenoon and Afternoon of eacli Day at the Harbour Master's Office for the Purposes of such they be inspected. inspection; and the Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer upon such Inspection is to give a Certificate under his Hand as to the State of Health of such Seaman, which Certificate such Seaman is to produce and show to the Master of the Ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every such certificate there shall be paid the Fee of Fifty Cents, to be paid by the Master or Agent of the Ship ia case such Seaman should prove to be in sound Health, and by the Seaman himself or the Boarding House Keeper with whom he shall be residing in case he shall prove to be affected with any Venereal isease; such Fee to be received by the Harbour Master, and in case of non-payment to be sued for and recovered by him, and paid into the Colonial Treasury for the Purposes of this Ordinance.
XX. In all Cases where Punishment by Imprisonment shall be inflicted under this Ordinance, such... Imprisonment may Imprisonment may be either in Gaol or in Hospital, and may be either with or without hard Labour as the be either in Gaol or
Hospital. Court shall adjudge.
From whom. Fines
XXI. In all Cases in which Fines shall be imposed under the Provisions of any Section of this al Officer Ordinance, and the Brothel Keeper on whom such Fine shall be imposed shall be unable to pay or discharge may be recovered, scharged,
the same, then the same shall be recovered from the immediate Landlord or Lessor of such House; and Registrar in case such Landlord or Lessor be not known or cannot be ascertained, then from the Crown Lessee of ame shall the Plot of Ground on which such House may be erected or built, provided it be proved to the satisfaction Hospital of the Magistrate, that such Crown Lessee was cognisant of the Purposes for which such House shall have ttempt to been let or occupied.
oned with XXII. No House in which any Trade or Business shall be carried on shall be Registered, or be
incurred capable of becoming a Registered Brothel under the Provisions of this Ordinance. Debt due
XXIII. No Moneys which shall be raised under the Provisions of this Ordinance by way of any Fee hall at any Time be applied or applicable to any Purposes other than or different from the Specific I shall be Purposes for which the same are to be raised, and to which they are to be applied under the Provisions of
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No Trade to be carried on in any Brothel.
Moneys raised under applied solely to the this Ordinance to be Purposes of the Ordi-
nance.
Power to Governor
Hegulations.
Penalties how to be recovered.
XXIV. His Excellency in Council is hereby empowered from Time to Time to make such Regula on convictions and By-Laws as may be deemed necessary for carrying into effect the Provisions of this Ordinance, to make By-Laws and ing Three and for the Regulation and Control of Registered Brothels within the aforesaid Districts.
XXV. All cases arising under this Ordinance shall be tried and adjudicated by, and all Fines and Penalties herein mentioned, and all Sums herein declared to be recoverable, shall be sued for and llector the recovered before, any Magistrate of Police either singly, or any two or more Justices of the Peace in the to demandanner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, entitled, “ An Ordinance to regulate Summary Proceedings
fore Justices of the Peace, and to protect Justices in the execution of their duty.”
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priated to um (to be er Medical Provisions Ordinance; (with the 3 a Person rform such
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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
No. 163.
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this 24th Day of November, 1857.
J. M. D'ALMAda e Castro,
for the Clerk of Councils.
JOHN BOWRING.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, in consequence of W. H. WHITE, Esquire, having been ordered home, His Excellency The Governor has been pleased, with the concurrence of the proper authorities, to appoint WILLIAM employed LE MESURIER, Assistant Commissary General, Acting Auditor General of Hongkong, from the 16th instant, uarterly in incurred in
I in case of
Reception nises to be he Moneys as shall be Payment of lied to the
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d November, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.