D. 1895.]
BRITISH DOLLAR.
[No. 8.
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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1895.
ORDINANCE to prohibit the Defacing or Chopping of British Dollars.
[23rd August, 1895.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the British Dollar (Prohibition of Chopping) Ordinance, 1895.
2. In this Ordinance "British Dollar" means the dollar coined in pursuance of Her Majesty's Order-in-Council (the British Dollar Order, 1895) dated the 2nd day of February, 1895, and published in The Hongkong Government Gazette of the 30th day of March, 1895, Government Notification No. 128.
3.(1.) It is hereby declared illegal to deface any British Dollar by stamping thereon any name or word or mark or by cutting, punching, or chopping such dollar in any way whatever.
(2) No tender of payment of money made in this Colony in such dollar or dollars so defaced shall be a legal tender.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1895.
Canton,
AN ORDINANCE to authorize in certain cases Judicial Investigations into the Causes of Fire.
[18th December, 1895.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
This Ordinance may be cited as the Fire Investigation Ordinance, 1895.
In case of fire Captain Superintendent of Police to take possession of premises. Whenever a fire has taken place on any premises, or has been attempted, the Captain Superintendent of Police shall, as soon as practicable, take possession of such premises and of any other premises where the fire is supposed to have originated, to the exclusion, if he deems it necessary, of the owners and all others; and he shall make or cause to be made, either personally or by some officer of not lower grade than an Inspector of Police, a full and minute inspection of such premises and report.