VAGRANCY.
No. 9 of 1897.
859
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 a 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 of such house of detention may cause sections 26 and 29 to be read to such vagrant and may then release him.
certain per-
21. (1) Whenever any person, not being a Chinese, arrives Liability of in the Colony, under an engagement to serve any person, sons to repay firm, company, association, or body of persons, in any costs incurred capacity; and
by Govern-ment in respect of
(2) whenever a non-commissioned officer or soldier in His vagrant. 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 six 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 from which such seaman has been so discharged or by whom he has been so left behind, shall respectively be liable to repay to the Government all costs and charges incurred 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.
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