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No. 9 of 1897.
Form of agreement.
Cost of removal of vagrant.
Removal of vagrant from the Colony.
Liability of certain persons to repay.
VAGRANCY.
18. Every such agreement may be on unstamped paper, and shall be in the form in the schedule or as near thereto as may be.
19. The cost of the removal from the Colony of any vagrant under this 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, suitable employment for him is likely to be speedily found, the Superintendent may enforce such agreement and cause such vagrant to be removed 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 he may be detained on board and shall be deemed in lawful custody while the ship is within the waters 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 he 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.
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
(2) whenever a non-commissioned officer or soldier in His Majesty's army leaves the army in the Colony, under such an engagement; 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, and within 6 months from the date of such arrival, leaving the army, or discharge, such person, non-commissioned officer or soldier, or 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.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911.
† As amended by No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912. § As amended by No. 51 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.