THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 1857) VOL. II. No. 79*.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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"
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as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
HONGKONG.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIA REGINE.
No. 2 of 1857.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Tryde, of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for better securing the Peace of the Colony.
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[6th January, 1857.] Whereas it is expedient, in consequence of the present circumstances of this Colony, to adopt im- mediate and further means for the preservation of the Peace and Security thereof: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:-
Preamble.
dinance, and power to
I. This Ordinance shall take effect within this Colony until His Excellency in Executive Council shall,, Operation of the Or by Proclamation published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, suspend the operation of the same; and suspend and revive it. His said Excellency in Council is hereby authorized from time to time, by any Proclamation so published as aforesaid to revive the operation of this Ordinance and again to suspend it, so often as shall be deemed meet.
II. Engraved Copper Plates, or printed Forms of Passes, shall be provided by the Superintendent of Forms of Night Passes Police according to the Form following, that is to say:
to be provided, sealed; and issued, by the Syr perintendent of Policet
This is to certify, that the bearer hereof [name] is authorised to pass and repass during the Night Season from and to the House of [Employer's name] in [Street or Road] Victoria, during the 'period of Days from the date hereof. Dated this
Day of
A.D., 1857. [Seal]
(Signed) 4.D., Superintendent of Police."' which Plates or Forms shall bear Her Majesty's Arms and be Sealed with the Police Office Seal, and shall be from time to time issued by the said Superintendent to such of the Occupiers of the several Houses within Victoria, for use as he shall find to be fit and proper Persons to receive and use the same, and accord- ing to the Wants of such Occupiers; yet so as that no Chinese Occupiers shall receive or hold more than ong such Plate or Form at any one time. And that no further issue of Plates or Forms be made to any Occi pier but upon his delivering up or proving the Loss or Destruction of those whereof he was previously the holder.
I. Every Occupier using or allowing to be used any Pass, shall first fill up or cause to be filled up the Blanks to be filled blanks therein according to the truth of the case; and he shall not use nor allow to be used any Pass Up by the Occupier, except in conformity with the facts thereby appearing; and every Offence against this Section shall be a Penalty. misdemeanor.
IV. The Superintendent of Police is empowered from time to time to call in and rescind any Plates, Power to rescind or Forms previously issued by him, whether the times for which they were issued shall have then expired Passes.
or not; and any Person wilfully disobeying any such call shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
V. Any Chinaman found at large elsewhere than in his own Habitation between the hours of Eight Penalty for not in the Evening and Sunrise and not having a Pass duly issued and made out in conformity with Sections baying a Night Pass. Two and Three of this Ordinance, shall be summarily punished by any Justice of the Peace for every such Offence, either by a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than One Dollar; or by Imprisonment and Hard Labour for a term not exceeding Fourteen Days, nor less than One Day; or by Public Whipping or Public Exposure in the Stocks, yet so as that no such Offender shall receive more than Twenty Blows, or be exposed for more than Two Hours, for any one Offence.