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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Wanted a passage to Perth, Western Australia, for three European Convicts.
Sealed Tenders will be received addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and particulars may be learnt on application at the Harbour Master's Office.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 17th Angust, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Wanted a Passage to Penang for Eight Chinese Convicts.
Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office.
For particulars apply to the Harbour Master.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th November, 1854.
Title.
Preamble.
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. 1 of 1855.
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 Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO ENFORCE NEUTRALITY DURING THE CONTEST NOW EXISTING IN CHINA,
[15th January, 1835.] WHEREAS it is necessary that strict neutrality be maintained by all residents within the Colony of Hongkong between the different parties at present contending for dominion in the Empire of China, and existing legislation does not sufficiently provide for the punishment of those who shall violate such neutrality :- Violation of neu- I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, trality, a misde- with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, with regard to all persons resident within the Colony of Hongkong, That it shall be a misdemeanour punishable by not more than two years' imprisonment and by a fine not exceeding Five thousand Dollars (such punishment to be accumulative or not at the discretion of the adjudicating tribu- nal) for any person resident within the Colony of Hongkong to assist either the existing Chinese Government or any of the different factions at present engaged or who may be hereafter engaged in opposition to the said Government by personal enlistment in war service or by procuring other persons to enlist in such service or by furnishing, selling, or procuring warlike stores of any description or by fitting out Vessels, or by knowingly and purposely doing any other act to assist either party by which neutral- ity may be violated.
meanour.
Penalty.
Constitution of
bunal.
No appeal.
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the Tribunal for adjudicating on adjudicating Tri- offences of the description intended to be dealt with by this Ordinance shall be composed of the Chief Magistrate and two other Magistrates, and that there shall be no appeal whatsoever either by certiorari or otherwise from the decision of such tribunal.
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any armed vessel whatsoever Armed Chinese carrying any Chinese Flag be found within any of the waters of this Colony and such Vessels, Removal vessel shall not depart there from within twenty four hours after a notice to depart from these waters, signed by the Colonial Secretary, has been served on board thereof, such vessel shall, with everything found on board of it, be seized and sold or made forfeit to the Crown on due condemnation by the said Magistrates.
of
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, that from and after the first day of Manufacture of February no person shall within Hongkong and its Dependencies or the waters thereof guns, cannon, gun- manufacture any gun, cannon or other machine which can be used for the discharge powder, &c. in the of ammunition, or any shot or any gunpowder or other explosive substance of the na- Colony, prohibited from 1st February,
ture of gunpowder or capable of being employed in discharging cannon, or any stink 1855.
pots or any composition of the same or similar nature as that whereof stink pots aro composed, under penalty, upon conviction of a breach of any part of this section, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve calendar months and of a fine not exceeding Five hundred Dollars, such penalties to be accumulative or not at the discretion of the adjudicating tribunal.
Penalty.
Sale of arms and
V. And be it further euacted and ordained, That no person shall, within Hongkong ammunition to re- and its dependencies or the waters thereof, sell, barter or willingly part with quire a Permit.
the possession, under any excuse whatsoever, of any gun, cannon or other instru- ment which can be used for the discharge of ammunition (excepting always European fowling pieces and pistols of every description whatever) or any shot or any gun.
Exception.