ORDINANCES Nos. 4 AND 5 OF 1863.
Gaol.
Police and Lighting Rates.
prison, the same shall mean similar labour imposed in a similar manner within or without the prison walls, and if a prisoner be sentenced to imprisonment, the same shall mean be imprisonment with labour of such light description within the prison walls as may be appointed by the Superintendent under the sanction of His Excellency the Governor; but prisoners charged with crime or offence confined for want of sureties or to take their trial shall not be under any obligation to labour beyond such labour as may be reasonably proper for the purpose of preparing their own food and keeping their persons and dress in a proper state, and keeping their cells clean. If any prisoners for debt or on civil process or under committal for trial shall request to be employed in labour, the Superintendent of the Gaol may respectively employ them in such work as may seem to him suitable.
16. All penalties imposed hereby or by any rules and regulations to be in force under this Ordinance shall be sued for and recovered under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 18 of 1885.]
NOTE. For additional Rules for the Government of Victoria Gaol of the 3rd September 1872, see Gazette of the 7th of the same month.
For Regulations of the 8th March 1877, see Gazette of the 10th of the same month. For Further Regulation of 9th November 1878, see Gazette of the same date. For Regulation as to Penal Diet of the 5th June 1885, see Gazette of the 13th of the same month.
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Mode of recovering penalties.
No. 5 of 1863.
An Ordinance for the better assessing and collecting the Police and Lighting Rates within the Colony of Hongkong.
[16th June, 1863.]
WHEREAS the collection of Police and lighting rates assessed upon the occupiers of tenements in this Colony is difficult and frequently impracticable, and it is expedient to make better provision for the rating of such tenements, and for the collection of such rates: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor by and with the advice of the Legislative Council as follows:-
Title.
[See Ord. No. 4 of 1868.]
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1845, Ordinance No. 3 of 1851, section 1 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1856, and Ordinance No. 8 of 1857, shall be and the same hereby are respectively repealed, except as to any operation already effected by, or act done under any or either of such Ordinances, or as to any right, title, obligation or liability acquired or accrued thereunder.
Ordinance No. 11 of 1856, and Ordinance No. 8 of 1857, repealed, except,