Enclosure 1.
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C. O.
13618
RECEIVED
REG 25 MAY 19
A BILL
ENTITLED
No. 14 :-[21.4.99.]
An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vagrancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1899.
2. Clause (c.) of section 21 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1897 is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof, the following shall be substituted and form part of such section, namely:--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 Mercantile Marine Office or his Deputy, and without 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
(1.) Inserting the words "and not having been wrecked" after the word "Chinese" in that section,
and
(ii) By striking out from that section the words “or becomes so within a period of six months.”