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VI. Whosoever shall receive or harbour any woman or female child knowing that such woman or female child has been sold or purchased whether within the Colony or elsewhere for the purpose of prostitution shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on con- viction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.
VII. Whosoever shall by force or fraud imprison or detain any person within the Colony, for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided,
VIII. Whosoever shall by force, intimidation, or any fraudulent means bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice any person into or away from the Colony, for the purpose of emi- gration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.
IX. Every person who shall be convicted of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
X. All offences against this Ordinance may be heard and determined summarily by two Magistrates sitting together, who shall constitute a Court for this purpose: Provided that if, at the close of the investigation, the accused shall apply for a trial by Jury, or the Magistrates shall be of opinion that the case ought to be so tried, they may commit the accused for trial at the Supreme Court.
XI. The provisions of Section LXVI of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 shall apply to every summary conviction under this Ordinance.
XII. Whenever any person shall be convicted before the Supreme Court of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance, if it shall be proved that the offender has been previously convicted either before the Supreme Court, or before two Magistrates sitting together, of an offence under the same or any other section of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its discretion, to direct that, in addition to the punishment hereinbefore prescribed, the offender, if a male, be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, subject to the provisions contained in section I of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868; and all the provisions of section XCIV of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 relating to the form of information for a subsequent offence and proceedings thereon, shall apply to offences punishable under this Ordinance.
Statement of Objects and Reasons,
Receiving or barbouring
women or children knowing them
to have been sold for prostitution. Unlawful imprisonment or detention.
Decoying persons into
or away from the Colony.
Punishment
for offences.
Trial of oxfen.com
Summary
convictions,
Punishiment
or whipping on second and subsequent convictions.
Form of information and proceed-
inga.
The Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 was passed in order to check, by Penal Legislation, the practice of buying and selling women and girls for prostitution and their detention or abduction for the like purposes. There is reason to believe that the Ordinance has done good service in the matter, and has diminished these abuses: but its language seems not to meet the case of women or girls purchased out of the Colony for the purpose of prostitution and brought here to be shipped to California, or elsewhere; unless the women or girls complain of being detained in this Colony against their will. Such complaints have been exceedingly rare, and proof of forcible detention difficult to obtain although there is no moral doubt that females are purchased out of the Colony, and after a few days' residence here are shipped to various places to become prostitutes. This Ordinance in the third and sixth sections aims at meeting these cases, and makes it a misdemeanour for any person to bring into the Colony any woman or girl knowing her to have been purchased for prostitution, or with the like knowledge to receive or harbour any such woman or girl.
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The rest of the Ordinance is almost a reprint of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1873, which for the sake of convenience is repealed and re-enacted with the two additional sections.
Hongkong, 23rd February, 1875.
JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General.
NOTE. The above Statement was appended to the Draft Amended Bill as laid before the Council. The text as given above is now the law except that public flogging is no longer allowable.
Without reference to nationality, all persons residing on British Territory are free agents.
They cannot be under the restraint of others. Women; if any of you have been kidnapped, purchased, seduced, deceived, or pledged for money, or have been compelled to swear before entering the brothels that you will act as pros- titutes, which you now object to do, under- stand clearly that such compulsion is illegal, and, that you are at liberty to come personally to this office, or to go to any police station and report the matter at any time you please. Your grievance will be at once attended to. If you want to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector, abandoning prostitu- tion, the Government will certainly let you do what you please, and will not allow you to be detained against your will. Be all of
you then very watchful! Be not deceived by brothel- keepers! Observe this notice.
Registrar General's Office, June, 1882.
N.
J. R.
毋 國立衙情期賣不凡
意或願
衙
立意從不欲爲裝
壬午年五月
毋爲寮主所惑 國家必聽其自便不准强留各直猛省 或各差館禀報自必卽行申理倘中 日華民政務司署給
各者或騙
差便被
是迫將
犯發
例誓
爾後
寮兩
不受他人拘制爾婦女等如有被人拐
凡英國屬土無論何國居民皆得自主
當或有皆
會被得
前取人自
官非上拐主