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No. 9 of 1897.
Punishment of vagrant for misconduct.
Weekly list of seamen vagrants to be sent to Harbour Master.
Penalty on vagrant for refusing employment.
VAGRANCY.
Provided always that such regulations may be modified in relation to vagrants by regulations approved by the Governor in Council, and further, that any money or effects of any vagrant may be applied towards the expense of carrying this Ordinance into execution for his benefit.
14. Any vagrant who knowingly disobeys any regulation shall be liable to the same punishment as if he were a misdemeanant in gaol.
15. The superintendent of every house of detention shall forward weekly to the Harbour Master a list of such vagrants under his charge as are seamen, and shall otherwise use his best endeavours to obtain suitable employment outside such house for the vagrants admitted thereto.
16. When such employment is obtained, any vagrant who refuses or neglects to avail himself thereof shall upon summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
Agreement by vagrant to leave the Colony.
Form of agreement. Schedule.
Cost of removal of vagrant.
Removal of vagrant from Colony.
17. Any vagrant may be allowed to enter into an agreement in writing with the Colonial Secretary, binding himself to embark on board such ship and at such time as the superintendent of the house of detention in which such vagrant is detained may direct, for the purpose of being removed from the Colony at the expense of the Government, to remain on board until such ship has arrived at the port named in such agreement, and not to return to the Colony within five years.
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, the superintendent of the house of detention shall cause him to be removed from the Colony unless, in the opinion of the superintendent, suitable employment for him is likely to be speedily found, such superintendent may enforce such agreement and cause such vagrant to be removed.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.