ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1876 . 1431
Deportation and Conditional Pardons.
Branded convicts
11. Every convict so deported as aforesaid, and nevertheless returning to the when liable to
flogging on
Colony, shall be liable, on conviction thereof before a Magistrate, to undergo the re return to Colony.
[See Ord. 4 of
mainder of his original sentence, and also , if a male, and if convicted subsequent to 1872, sec..
his return to the Colony of any felony or other crime which the Court sentencing such
convict may consider to be so brutal, inveterate, or mischievous as to justify extraor
dinary measures, shall be liable to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged with
the regulation instrument : Provided that not more than thirty- six lashes be inflicted
on any one occasion.
12. Regulations defining the mode of branding under this Ordinance shall be Regulations as
to mode of
branding to be
framed by the Governor in Council, and may be altered and amended , from time to framed by
Governor in
time, by the same authority . Council.
[See Ord. 4 of
1872, sec. 3. ]
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if he shall think fit, to issue Prisoner may be
deported again.
[See Ord. 4 of
a new order of deportation against any person who shall have been convicted of an 1871 , sec. 4.]
offence against section 6 of this Ordinance, and such order shall commence to take
effect during or at the expiration of any term of imprisonment to which the prisoner
shall have been sentenced.
14. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if he shall think fit, to issue Prisoner re
turning after
an order of deportation against any person who shall have been convicted of an offence conditional
pardon may be
against sections 8 or 11 of this Ordinance, and such order shall commence to take effect deported.
during or at expiration of any term of imprisonment to which the prisoner shall have
been sentenced .
15. Any person convicted before a Magistrate of mendicancy in this Colony shall Mendicancy
forbidden.
be liable to a fine not exceeding five dollars, or in default thereof, to imprisonment, [See Ord. 8 of
1858, secs. 23 and
28.]
with or without hard labour, not exceeding twenty -one days, or, in the discretion of
the Magistrate, shall be liable to be whipped thirty-six strokes with a rattan , and be
sent to his native place .
16. All persons affected with leprosy are hereby prohibited from residing or being Lepers to be sent
to Chinese
within the jurisdiction of this Colony, and all lepers natives of China found in the authorities.
jurisdiction shall be apprehended, and , subject to the order of the officer for the time
being in command of the Police, be liable to be forthwith sent to Canton, and there
handed over to the Chinese authorities, and on being found within this Colony a second
time , shall be liable to deportation by order of the Governor.
17. Any person who shall knowingly harbour or conceal , in the Colony of Hong Penalty on
persons know
kong, any person under sentence of deportation , shall, on conviction thereof before ingly harbouring
Chinese under
a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or in default of sentence of
deportation .
[See Ord. 9 of
payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding 1837, sec. 17.1
six months.