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Enclosure 2.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1st,
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
PEACE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE
AMENDED.
A meeting of the Legislative Counci was held yesterday afternoon, when all the members were present. The most important business fransarted was the passing of the Peace Preservation (Amendnie () Ordinance through all its stages.
The Attorney General moved the suspension of the standing orders to enable the Rill to be carried through all stages, and remarked that it had not been cirenlated as usual because the decision with regard to it bad only been arrived at on the previous day, The Bill was only drafted on Wednesday night, and the proofs were not revised until the following morning. He moved that it be road a first time.
The Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. Clementi) seconded.
HIS EXCELLENCY-Gentlemen, The Gazette Extraordinary published yesterday contained a proclamation issued under section 6 of the Peace Proservation Ordinance No 10 of 1886. That proclamation gives certain powers for deal- ing with disturbances in the Colony, certain amooptimal game which were considered nec- essary at a meeting of the Governor-in-Council on the previous afternocu. I do not for a mo- ment imagine that any exceptional powers will be required in this Colony,except perhaps in one single direction, of which I will speak more fully in a moment. Chinese residents in this Colony, I am confident, appreciate the security and safety they enjoy under the British flag. and this has been proved abundantly to me dar- ing the course of the last month when I have had most loyal co-operation from leading Chin- ese residents, of course including the two Chin- ese members of Council. They have not only done their utmost to co-operate with the Gov- ernment, but they have also followed my advice in many somewhat difficult matters on which they have come and asked it. It is therefore, you will agree, all the more incumbent on the Government to grant to the residents of the Colony that peaco, security and profection of life and property that they expect to enjoy under the British flag. (Applause,) As, how- ever, You have scon, probably in the Press, or have heard elsewhere, there has, during the last few weeks, been a considerable amount of row- diness-I won't give it a stronger name than that--here have been several interferences with the police in the execution of their duty, and the first three cases which occurred are, in my opinico, somewhat significant. One case was the arrest of a thief, after whom there had already been raised a hue and cry. When arrested by a constable, the crowd turned on the constable. The rest two cases were cases of snatching jewellry from the heads of Chinese ladies. That form of crime is detested by Chinese in this Colony, and is one in which they always give the most eager assistance to the police. The fact that in these two cases the crowd should have resented the arrest of the prisoner by the police into my mind marquicane Bat, and seems to me to show that these
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persons who have interfered with the pedof not belong to the Colony, but are a recent im- por ation from outside its boundaries. It is, as I have said. the duty of the Government to protect its citizens from abuse, and to sure them the freedom which is always extended to all persons to come in and out. and to stay as they like in this Colony. It is the duty of the government to show, if people come from Canton to this Colony, that they must behave themselves, and that we shall not allow the city of Victoria to become the scene of turbulence and riots such as, unfortunately. at the present moment exist in some parts of China. And in this desire I am quite confident that we have the full approvel and acquiescence of the whole commuaity, including the Chinese, (applause.) The Peace Preservation Ordinance, gentlemen, confers certain powers, as I have said upon the Government for the despersion of riotous assemblies and so on, but in my view it $ provisions for dealing with persons arrested red- handed in acts of violence are exceeding inade- quate. It is, as you well recognise, very difficult in those circumstances to arrest persons. When the police succeed in arresting a person, in my opinion he should be dealt with severely. infliction of a small fine is perfectly useless and the indiction of a short sentence of im- prisonment is not only useless, bat exceedingly ifficuli because of the limited prison accomo dation we have in the Colony, I think therefore it is advisable that when it shall appear to the Governor-in-Council necessary to issue this proclamation under this Ordinance that for the time, and for the time only, during which the proclamation is current, the magistrates should be given powers to inflict corporal punishment upon persons who have been arrested for inci- ting acts violence or themselves committing acts of violence, That, gentleman. if the object of the Bill which is before yon. The Law Officers have set down a number of sectious of various Ordinances dealing with such acts of violence, and these we will examine very care- fully in committee. Our object is to deter criminals from congregating here during the present crisis in China, and show them that the Goverment of this Colony, and also the law-abiding and peaceful citizens of this Colony, will make it hot for them if they attempt to create disturbances and prevent the police of the Colony from carrying out their duties. The hon. Attorney Genera has told you that I propose to ask the Council to pass this Bill through all its stages to-day. That bowever, will come under a separate motion, We are engaged at the present moment on a motion for the suspension of the standing orders in order to pass the first reading of the Bill. But I think it is wall that I should explain the reason why later on, we shall perpose this as a maiter of urgency if members agree, «de have said, the proclamation which has been issued appears to me to be of little value unless it is supplemented by a Bill something like the vue before us. The leniency the Magistrates are compelled to show is only misunderstood and the Bill appears to me Lecessary to make the proclamation effective If, however, the feeling of the Council should be that it would be better to postpone the passing of the Bill till next meeting, I shall not insist on passing it through to-day. But I hope the Council will agree with me that if the Bill is necessary at all it would be much better that it should be passed at once. The reason why the Bill has hot been circulated as usual has already been ex- plained by my hon. and learned friend on my loft (Applause.)
The motion was carried unanimously, and the bill subs quently passed its first, second and third readings, and became law.
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