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provisions of section 3, shall be guilty of an offence, and, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month.
5. Any commissioned or non-commissioned officer in Her Majesty's Naval or Military Forces and any Police officer may, with or without a warrant, apprehend or cause to be apprehended any person offending against this Ordinance, and may bring him or cause him to be brought before a Magistrate for the purpose of being dealt with according to law.
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1898.
AN ORDINANCE to authorize the Imposition of Fees for the Issue, by the Government of this Colony, of certain Certificates to certain Chinese desirous of proceeding to the United States of America or to Ports in the Possession of the Government of the said United States.
[13th August, 1898,]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
A.D. 1898. Ordinance No. 13 of 1898, with Ordinance No. 7 of 1900 incorporated:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Certificates (Fees) Ordinance, 1898.
2. For each certificate issued by the Government of this Colony to a Chinese person, other than a labourer, desirous of proceeding to the United States of America there shall be paid by the applicant to the Registrar General a fee of fifty dollars, which he shall pay into the Colonial Treasury.
3. For each certificate issued by the Government of this Colony to a Chinese person, other than a labourer, desirous of proceeding to any port not in the United States of America but which is in the actual Possession of the Government of the said United States, there shall be paid by the applicant to the Registrar General a fee of twenty-five dollars, which he shall pay into the Colonial Treasury.
4. All fees hitherto charged and received by the Registrar General in respect of such certificates before the commencement of this Ordinance, and paid by him into the Colonial Treasury, shall be deemed to have been hitherto legally charged and received by him.
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