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VICTORIE REGINÆ.

By His Excellency WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

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W. T. MERCER.

No. 4 of 1863.

An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 1 of 1853 and to provide Gaols and Debtors' Wards, and for the due control of Prisoners therein. [26th May, 1863.]

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HEREAS the present Gaol is insufficient for the Prisoners now incarcerated therein and it is advisable to repeal the Ordinance No. 1 of 1853 and to provide further Prison accommodation and for due management and control of Prisoners: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:→→

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I. The Ordinance No. 1 of 1853 intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of the Order No. 1 of Gaol of Hongkong" is hereby repealed.

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II. So much and such Parts of the present Gaol in Victoria as His Excellency theorised Governor shall from time to time by order in writing direct for the purpose shall be set at Golf The apart and be used for a Gaol and shall be called the “Victoria Gaol,” and so much and such Victoria Gender and parts of the said present Gaol as His Excellency the Governor shall from time to time to L by order in writing direct for the purpose shall be set apart and used for a Debtors' Ward or Prison and shall be called the Debtors' Ward in the Victoria Gaol.

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III. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under Governor authorised his hand to appropriate and set apart the whole or so much and such parts of Stonefathers Laund Cutters' Island in the Harbour of Victoria as His Excellency shall from time to time e * God and Halk direct for a Gaol, which shall be called the "New Gaol,” and until the said “New Gaol” y mà CM). shall be finished and for such further time as His Excellency the Governor shall think fit a certain Hulk now in course of being fitted for the purpose of receiving Prisoners to be employed on the said Island shall be treated as forming part of the said lastmentioned Gaol.

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IV. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under mer natharinad his hand from time to time hereafter to appropriate and set apart any other site or sitesse Geck met within the said Colony as and for a Gaol or Gaols and a Debtors' Ward or Debtors' Wards Deber Wand. which sites respectively shall be called by such names respectively as shall in any such order be specified.

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V. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by order overser encherand in writing to determine the use of the said Gaol and Debtors' Ward and of such other of the man cast an Gaols and Debtors' Wards as shall have been formed as aforesaid or of any or either Debris,