DIEU DROIT
HONGKONG ,
ANNO SEPTIMO
VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. 12 of 1844.
Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
the Most Honourable of
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
trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, with
the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for the Establishment and Regulation of a Police Title.
Force in the Colony of Hongkong.
[1st May, 1844. ]
WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for Preamble.
establishing an effective System of Police within the Colony of
Hongkong :
I. Be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for his Excel- Governor to appoint
Chief, Marine, and
lency the Governor of Hongkong to nominate and appoint a proper Assistant Magistrates,
Person to be Chief Magistrate of Police throughout the Colony of Police,
and Superintendent
&c. of
Hongkong, who shall reside in the Town of Victoria, and shall be
charged and invested with the general Direction and Superintendence
of the Force to be established under this Ordinance, and to appoint,
from time to time, fit and proper Persons to be respectively Marine
and Assistant Magistrates, and Superintendents of Police under the
said Chief Magistrate, and proper Persons to be Clerks in the Office of
such Chief Magistrate ; and every such Marine and Assistant Magis-
trates, and Superintendent of Police, shall, on his Appointment to
Oaths to be taken.
such Office, forthwith take, before any two Justices of the Peace at
Hongkong, the Oaths required to be taken by Justices of the Peace in
Hongkong aforesaid, and also the Oath hereinafter contained, and shall
thereupon become and be, without further Qualification or Appoint-
ment, and continue so long as they shall hold the said Offices, but no
longer, Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong :-
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