Enclosure J
C.O. 12795
DEA 14 APR 09
To His Excellency
Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and Vice-Admiral of the same.
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The humble Petition of the under-signed Chinese Gentlemen and Merchants.
Most respectfully sheweth:-
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2. Your Petitioners are the leading Chinese gentlemen and merchants resident in the Colony of Hongkong. On the third day of December, 1908, a Bill entitled "An Ordinance further to amend The Magistrates Ordinance 1890 and to effect certain other amendments in the Criminal Law" was introduced into the Legislative Council and passed its First Reading.
By Section 7 of this Bill, Section 3 of the Summary Offences Ordinance 1845 was amended by the addition thereto at the end of the Section of the following Sub-section, namely:-
(18) Spits on the floor of any school-house, theatre, public building, or other place of public entertainment or Assembly, or of any common entrance, lobby, hall, passageway, corridor or staircase of any building used or occupied for shops, offices or flats, or in any licensed public vehicle, or in any tram or railway car, or on any wharf or jetty, or on any footway or side walk of a public street.
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