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No. 9 of 1897.
VAGRANCY.
SCHEDULE.
[s. 18.]
FORM OF AGREEMENT TO LEAVE THE COLONY.
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day of ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made this between the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong of the one part and A.B., of etc., [the vagrant] of the other part: Each of the parties hereto (so far as relates to the acts on his own part to be performed) hereby agrees with the other of them as follows:-
1. The said A.B. shall embark on board such ship, and at such time, as the superintendent of the house of detention shall direct.
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2. The said A.B. shall remain on board such ship until such ship shall have arrived at the port of †
3. The said A.B. shall not return to Hongkong until five years shall have elapsed from the date of such embarkation, unless he shall be specially permitted to return by the Governor of Hongkong.
4. The said Colonial Secretary of Hongkong shall contract of passage with the owner of such ship or his agent for the said A.B. on board such ship, and for his subsistence during the voyage for which he shall embark as aforesaid,
In witness whereof the said Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and the said A.B. have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written.
(Signed.)
Colonial Secretary.
A.B.
† Here insert the port to which the person agrees to go.
[Originally No. 27 of 1897.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
1 & 2 Vict. c. 74.
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Short title.
No. 10 of 1897.
An Ordinance to facilitate the recovery of possession of tenements and premises of small value.
[13th December, 1897.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the more speedy and effectual recovery of the possession of tenements and premises of small value:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Small Tenements Recovery Ordinance, 1897.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.