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There are also three Probationer Officers, two males and one female.
18. Lady visitors attend the Female Prison twice weekly to instruct long sentence prisoners in needle work.
19. Visiting Justices inspect and report on the prisons every fortnight.
Chapter XIV.
LEGISLATION.
Forty-one Ordinances were passed during the year 1934. These and also the Regulations, Rules, By-laws and other subsidiary legislative enactments are published in a separate volume by the Government Printers. The forty-one Ordinances comprised two appropriation, four replacement, three incorporation, one consolidation, twenty-seven amendment, and four which were new to the Colony.
2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 29) applied a sum not exceeding $26,404,219 to the public service for the year 1935, and Ordinance No. 16 appropriated a supplementary sum of $27,243.67 to defray the charges of the year 1933.
3. Of the four replacement Ordinances:-
The Registration of Persons Ordinance (No. 3) applies with specified exceptions to non-Chinese aliens. It replaced two Ordinances (The Travellers Restriction Ordinance, 1915, and the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1916) which were passed during the war and which, though still law, were not strictly enforced in recent years. The Immigration and Passports Ordinance (No. 8) enacted new provisions derived mainly from the Straits Settlements Passengers Restriction Ordinance, No. 169, as amended to 1932, and from the existing Passport Regulations of this Colony, in place of the power of regulating the admission of persons into the Colony delegated to the Governor in Council by the Passports Ordinance, 1923, which it replaced. The Trustee Ordinance (No. 18), based on the Trustee Act, 1925, replaced the Trustees Ordinance, and the Cremation Ordinance (No. 40) replaced the Cremation Ordinance, 1914.
4. Ordinance No. 10 incorporated the Trustees of the China Fleet Club, Ordinance No. 20 incorporated the Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic commonly known as Maryknoll Sisters, and Ordinance No. 39 incorporated a Body of Trustees capable of holding property and empowered to administer a trust fund known as the Morrison Scholarships Trust Fund for the purpose of providing scholarships at Queen's College in this Colony. These Ordinances followed the usual lines in such cases.
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