RY
LIBRA
Leland Stanford, Jr.'
ITY
UNIVERS
ADIEU DROIT
HONGKONG ,
ANNO SEXTO ET SEPTIMO
VICTORIA REGINÆ.
No. 2 of 1844.
Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-
dencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects
in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to regulate the Printing of Books and Papers, and Title.
the keeping of Printing Presses within the Colony of Hongkong.
[28th February, 1844. ]
I. Be it enacted, That from and after the First Day of April now No Newspaper to be
save in Ac-
next ensuing, no Printed Periodical Work whatever, containing cordancewith theRules
Public News, or Comments on Public News, shall be published within hereinafter mentioned.
the Colony of Hongkong, except in Conformity with the Rules
hereinafter laid down.
1. The Printer and the Publisher of every such Periodical Printer and Pub-
Work shall appear before the Chief Magistrate of Police at lisher
ration. to make Decla-
Hongkong, and shall make and subscribe in duplicate the
following Declaration ,—“ I. A. B. declare, that I am the Printer
" (or Publisher, or Printer and Publisher) of the Periodical
" Work entitled
" and Printed (or Published, or Printed and Published) at
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Hongkong, "
and the last Blank in this Form of Declaration shall be filled
up with a true and precise Account of the Premises where
the Printing or Publication is conducted .
2. As often as the Place of Printing or Publication is New Declaration on
Change of Residence.
changed, a new Declaration shall be necessary.
3. As often as the Printer or the Publisher, who shall have New Declaration on
made such Declaration as is aforesaid, shall leave the Colony former Printerthe
lisher leaving orPub-
Co-
of Hongkong, a new Declaration from a Printer or Publisher lony.
resident within the said Colony shall be necessary.
A II.