1897.1
VAGRANCY.
No. 9.
removal of
The cost of the removal from the Colony of any vagrant under Ordinance shall be defrayed by the Government, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained for its refund.
20 (1.) When a vagrant has entered into such agreement, unless, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the House of Detention, suitable employment is likely to be speedily found for such vagrant, the Superintendent may enforce such agreement and cause such vagrant to be moved from the Colony, and, if he deems it desirable, may call in the assistance of the Police to place such vagrant on board ship, and such vagrant may be detained on board and shall be deemed in lawful custody while the ship is within the jurisdiction of the Colony.
(2) If, after the lapse of a reasonable time, no suitable employment is obtainable for a vagrant detained in the House of Detention, and such vagrant has not entered into the agreement hereinbefore mentioned, or it is not thought desirable to remove him from the Colony, the Superintendent may cause sections 26 and 29 to be read to such vagrant and may then release him.
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Removal of vagrant from the Colony.
Liability of persons to certain
21 (1.) Whenever any person, not being a Chinese, arrives in the Colony, under an engagement to serve any person, firm, company, association, or body of persons, in any capacity; and
whenever a non-commissioned officer or soldier in Her Majesty's Government Army leaves that Army in the Colony, under such an engagement; in respect of
and
(3) whenever any seaman, other than a Chinese, is discharged from his ship in the Colony, without the sanction of the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office or his Deputy, and without reasonable provision having been made as to his subsistence, or, not being a deserter, is wrongfully left behind in the Colony,
within a period of six months from the date of such arrival, leaving Army, or discharge such person, such non-commissioned officer or soldier, or such seaman respectively becomes chargeable to the Colony as a vagrant, then, in cases within sub-sections (1.) and (2.), the person, firm, company, association, or body of persons with whom such engagement was made, and, in cases within sub-section (3.); the master of the ship in which such seaman has been so discharged or by whom he has been left behind shall respectively be liable to repay to the Government all costs and charges incurred by the Colony on his behalf since he became a vagrant, including hospital costs and charges and the cost of his removal under this Ordinance. Such person shall be deemed to have become a vagrant at and from the date mentioned in the Magistrate's declaration as that from which, in his opinion, such person has been a vagrant.
repay costs incurred by vagrant.