28. Every woman who shall be found in any street, road, matshed, or other place within the Colony for the purposes of prostitution shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.
29. Every woman who shall be found on board of any junk, boat, sampan, or craft of any kind or description within the waters of the Colony, for the purposes of prostitution shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.
30. Every person apparently in charge of any junk, boat, sampan, or craft when any woman shall be found therein for the purposes of prostitution shall be liable to the same penalties as in the last preceding section mentioned, and in addition thereto such junk, boat, sampan or craft, may on proof of any woman having been found therein for the purposes aforesaid be forfeited to the Crown.
31. Every woman who is found on board any vessel of foreign build in the waters of the Colony for the purposes of prostitution may be arrested by any Constable at the request of the master or officer of the said vessel and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.
32. It shall be lawful for any Constable to take into custody without warrant any person in any manner offending against the above mentioned four sections, and to seize, detain and take possession of any junk, boat, sampan, or craft referred to in sections 29 and 30, in which any woman shall be found for the purposes aforesaid.
33. The Governor may from time to time appoint and remove fit persons to be respectively Inspector of Hospitals and Visiting Surgeons and Superintendent of Hospitals, and such other officers as may be required for the carrying out of this Ordinance, and may regulate their respective duties and salaries. Until the Governor otherwise directs, and during any vacancy, the Colonial Surgeon shall be Inspector of Hospitals.
The Inspector of Hospitals shall have all the powers of a Visiting Surgeon.
34. The Governor may from time to time provide any buildings or parts of buildings as Hospitals for the purposes of this Ordinance and the fact of such buildings or parts of buildings being so provided shall be notified in the Gazette. A copy of the Gazette containing any such notification shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
35. A Superintendent shall be appointed for each Hospital who shall have the control and management thereof, subject nevertheless to the directions of the Inspector of Hospitals and to any regulations made and approved under this Ordinance in respect thereof.
A Superintendent shall have all the powers of a Visiting Surgeon.
36. A printed copy of regulations purporting to be Regulations of a Hospital so approved, such copy being signed by the Inspector of Hospitals shall be evidence of the Regulations of the Hospital and of the due making and approval thereof for the purposes of this Ordinance.
37. Every woman detained in a Hospital shall during the period of such detention be carefully provided for and furnished free of expense to her with lodging, clothing, and food.
38. The expenses which may be incurred in or about the treatment of any prostitute detained in a Hospital as specified in the last preceding section shall be a debt due to the Crown and payable by the keeper of the brothel or by the keeper or person apparently in charge of the house wherein such person may have been residing. The same in case of non-payment may be sued for and recovered from such keeper or person by the Registrar General, or other duly authorized officer, subject nevertheless to the provisions in the next section contained.
Women found
in street, &c.
for purposes
of prostitution
Liable to fine and imprison-
ment.
Women found
on board any
junk, &c., for
purposes of
prostitution
Liable to fine and
Imprisonment.
Person in charge of
junk, &c., in which
woman found for
purposes of
prostitution
Liable to fine and imprison-
ment, and junk, &c., to
forfeiture.
Women found
in harbour for
purposes of
prostitution
Constable authorized to
arrest without warrant.
Persons found offending
and to seize
Junk, &c.
Appointment
of Officers.
Power to
Governor to
provide
Hospitals.
Superintend-
ent of
Hospital.
Proof of
Evidence of
regulations.
Care and
Treatment
of women
detained in
Hospital.
Expenses of
treatment of
prostitutes in
Hospitals.
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