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SEG 1200 38
A BILL
entitled
Short title
Amendment of
Sect.21 of Ord.
25 of 1897.
Substituted
Amendment of Sect.22 of Ord.
25 of 1897.
An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance 1897.
Be it enacted &C.,
&C.
80.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Vagrancy (Amend-
ment) Ordinance 1898.
2. Clause (c) of Section 21 of Ordinance No.25 of 1897
is, hereby, repealed and, in lieu thereof, the clause
following shall be substituted and form part of such
section, namely:-
(c) "Whenever any seaman, other than a Chinese, is
discharged from his ship in this Colony, without
the sanction of the Superintendent of the Mer-
cantile Marine Officer or his Deputy, and with-
out reasonable provision having been made as
to his subsistence,or,not being a deserter, is
wrongfully left behind in this Colony."
3. Section 22 of Ordinance No.25 of 1897 is hereby
amended by striking out the words "or becomes so
within