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THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D.
office, or the office of a telegraph company, for transmission by telegraph, or delivered by the post office or a telegraph company as a message or communication transmitted by telegraph; and
(b.) the expression "telegraph company" means any company, corporation, or persons carrying on the business of sending telegrams for the public, under whatever authority or in whatever manner such company, corporation, or persons may be constituted.
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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1895.
A.D. 1895. - AN ORDINANCE to prevent the Sketching of Defences.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1895. See also Ordinance No: 3 of 1891.
Short title.
Prohibition of sketching of battery, etc.
1911
Penalty on person sketching battery, etc.
Penalty on person attempting to sketch battery, etc.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows.
[4th March, 1895.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Defences (Sketching Prevention) Ordinance, 1895.
2.-(1.) From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any person, whether a British subject or an alien, to make any sketch, drawing, photograph, picture, or painting of any battery, field work, or fortification or of any portion thereof within this Colony or the waters thereof, without having previously obtained the permission in writing of the Governor.
(2.) Such permission shall clearly and expressly state the nature of the sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, or paintings which may be made by the person to whom such permission is given, and the place or places at which such sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, or paintings may be made.
3. Every person who contravenes the provisions of the last preceding section shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or, at the discretion of the Magistrate, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months; and all such sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, and paintings shall, at the discretion of the Magistrate, be liable to forfeiture.
4. Any person found within the immediate vicinity of any battery or field work, or fortification in this Colony and with sketching, drawing, photographic, or painting materials or apparatus in his possession, with...