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HONGKONG
DROIT
ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO
VICTORIE REGINE.
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.
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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THEREAS 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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1853 repealed.
I. The Ordinance No. 1 of 1853 intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of the Ordinance No. 2 of Gaol of Hongkong" is hereby repealed.
to set apart Parts of
ather Parts for Deb
II. So much and such Parts of the present Gaol in Victoria as His Excellency the Governor asthurised Governor shall from time to time by order in writing direct for the purpose shall be set present Geal for "The apart and be used for a Gaol and shall be called the "Victoria Gaol," and so much and such Victoria Gaol" and parts of the said present Gaol as His Excellency the Govenor shall from time to time tore Ward. 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.
to set apart all or part
III. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under Governor authorized his hand to appropriate and set apart the whole or so much and such parts of Stone BioDeCuttere "Imant Cutters' Island in the Harbour of Victoria as His Excellency shall from time to time for God and Huk direct for a Gaol, which shall be called the "New Gaol," and until the said "New Gaol” of mach Ünal. 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 formning part of the said lastmentioned Gaol.
to be treated as part
to set spart any other
IV. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under, versar sutherland his band from time to time hereafter to appropriate and set apart any other site or sitesaltes Gadi and within the said Colony as and for a Gaol or Gaols and a Debtors' Ward or Debtors' Wards Debtors Ward. which sites respectively shall be called by such names respectively as shall in any such order be specified.
to determine the me
V. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by order overthortest in writing to determine the use of the said Gaol and Debtors' Ward and of such other of the said Gaol and Gaols and Debtors' Wards as shall have been formed as aforesaid or of any or either Deion.
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