Chinese Money-Changers to be Licensed.
Penalty on an Unlicensed Money Changer.
ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
VII. From and after the First Day of August, 1867, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a License to do so from the Registrar General, which License shall remain in force for One Year, and for which the Sum of Five Dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
VIII. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a Money-Changer without having obtained such a License, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate any of the Conditions contained in the said License, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Three Months.
IX. The Provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, so far as they relate to Night Passes, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to Chinese Women, except so far as the same may authorize the infliction of any Corporal punishment, or exposure in the stocks.
X. The keeping of Pigs, or of other Animals likely to be injurious to the public health within the city of Victoria without a Special License from the Registrar General is strictly prohibited, and any Person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a Pig or other such Animal in the said City of Victoria, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Five Dollars, and in default of payment shall be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Days, and the said Pig or other Animal shall also be forfeited.
Adulterated and unwholesome Food or Liquor, &c. may be seized; Penalty on Persons selling the same.
Warrants to search Houses and Shops may be granted in certain Cases.
Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
XI. Any Person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any House or Shop in the Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months; and in case the Person convicted shall be a licensed Spirit Dealer, or Boarding-house Keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his License.
XII. On Information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any Constable or credible Person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food, is exposed, or for sale, in any House or Shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawful for such Justice in his Discretion, to grant a Warrant to any Constable to enter and search any such House or Shop by day, and such Constable may, if necessary, break open the Doors of such House or Shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the Owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed, but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper Owner. And in case of a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the Offender to pay in addition to any Fine that may be imposed, the Costs which have been incurred in the execution of the said Warrant.
XIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a duly qualified Medical Practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such Duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual Salary as may be voted.
Overcrowded Lodging Houses.
XIV. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any Two resident Medical Practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any House, occupied by more than One family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a Summons against the Householder or his Agent within the meaning of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance 1866," by Notice affixed to the House, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such Order as he may think fit; and in case any Order so made shall not be complied with by such Householder, or Agent as aforesaid, within Seven Days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the Person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said Order, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment the Person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said Order may be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Months.
XV. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any House in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any Person refusing to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such House shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Dollars and not less than Five Dollars, or in default of payment to be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Days.
XVI. Whenever the Holder of any License for the sale of Spirituous Liquors granted under Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 shall permit any Instalment of his License Fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment, may be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding One Month.
XVII. Any Person who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, in the Colony of Hongkong, any Person under Sentence of Deportation, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars or in default of payment, to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months.
XVIII. And whereas the Evils of Gambling in the Colony are found to be on the increase notwithstanding the application of the Penal Laws in force for their Prevention, and it is expedient to devise and adopt further measures for the gradual Control and ultimate Suppression thereof; Be it therefore enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to frame and pass such Rules, Regulations and Conditions as may be deemed expedient for the total Suppression or in the meanwhile for the better Limitation and Control of Gambling in this Colony, with Power from time to time to alter and amend such Rules and Regulations or repeal the same or any part thereof.
XIX. Any Person violating any of the Rules, Regulations or Conditions to be from time to time framed and passed by the Governor in Council and published in the Gazette in pursuance of this Ordinance, or any of the Conditions imposed thereunder for the better limitation and control of Gambling, shall be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police to a Penalty not exceeding Two hundred Dollars and not less than Twenty Dollars, and to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labor, for any Period not exceeding Six Calendar Months and not less than One Calendar Month.
XX. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or Constable, and also for any Person authorized thereto by the Governor to enter any House, Room, Vessel, Boat, and Place, either on Land or Water within the limits of this Colony, and to arrest therein any Person violating or suspected of having within Twenty-four Hours previous to such arrest violated any such Rules, Regulations or Conditions as aforesaid, and to seize all Instruments of Gaming, Tables, Dice or other Implements used in Gambling, and also all Monies and Securities for Money found on such Persons or in such House, Room, Boat, Vessel and Place aforesaid, and all such Implements of Gambling, Monies and Securities for Money if proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of Police to have been used or kept for purposes of Gambling shall be forfeited to the Crown; and all Persons convicted of violating the Rules, Regulations and Conditions aforesaid shall in addition to the forfeitures specified in this Section be liable to be fined in or Imprisoned for any Period named in the Rules to be framed by the Governor in Council under Section XVIII.
XXI. The Word "Gambling" as used in this Ordinance shall apply to and include Lotteries, as well those known as Wai-Sing, Pak-Kop-Piu, Tsze-Fa, as all others.
XXII. All Ordinances or portions of Ordinances inconsistent with the Provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
XXIII. All Penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be recovered and may be distributed in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
XXIV. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 17th June, 1867.
L. A. Clerk