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HONG KONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE Regise.
No. 2 of 1857.
By his Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, LL.D, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
AN ORDINANCE for better securing the Peace of the Colony. [6th January, 1857.]
Appendix No. 1.
WHEREAS it is expedient, in consequence of the present circumstances of this colony, Preamble.
to adopt immediate and further means for the preservation of the peace and security thereof:
Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, with
the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:
I. This Ordinance shall take effect within this colony until his Excellency in Executive Operation of the Council shall, by proclamation published in the Hong Kong Government "Gazette,suspend Ordinance, and the operation of the same; and his said Excellency in Council is hereby authorized from power to suspend time to time, by any proclamation so published as aforesaid, to revive the operation of this And revive it. Ordionoce and again to suspend it, so often as shall be deemed meet.
H. Engraved copper plates, or printed forms of passes, shall be provided by the Super- Forms of Night intendent of Police according to the form following, that is to say:
(Royal Arms.)
"This is to certify, that the bearer hereof [name] is authorized to pass and repass during "the night season from and to the house of [employer's name] in [street or road] "Victoria, during the period of days from the date hereof. Dated this
day of
A.D. 1857.
"[Seal]
(Signed) A.B., Superintendent of Police,”
which plates or forms shall bear Her Majesty's Arms and be scaled with the Police Office Seal, and shall be from time to time issued by the said Superintendent to such of the occupiers of the several houses within Victoria, for use, as he shall find to be fit and proper persons to receive and use the same, and according to the wants of such occupiers; yet so as that no Chinese occupiers shall receive or hold more than one such plate or form at any one time. And that no further issue of plates or forms be made to any occupier but upon his delivering
up or proving the loss or destruction of those whereof he was previously the holder.
Passes to be pro-
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vided, sealed, and issued by the Super- intendent of Pulice.
11. Every occupier using or allowing to be used any puss shall first fill up or cause to Blanks to be filled
be filled up the blanks therein according to the truth of the case; and he shall not use nor up by the occupier.
allow to be used any pass except in conformity with the facts thereby appearing; and every Penalty. offence against this section shall be a misdemeanour.
IV. The Superintendent of Police is empowered from time to time to call in and rescind Power to rescird any plates or forms previously issued by hini, whether the times for which they were issued Passes. shall have then expired or not; and any person wilfully disobeying any such "call shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour.
V. Any Chinaman found at large elsewhere than in his own habitation between the Penalty for nut hours of eight in the evening and sunrise, and not having a pass duly is-ued and made out in having a Night conformity with Sections II and III of this Ordinance, shall be summarily punished by Pass, any Justice of the Peace for every such offence, either by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than one dollar; or by imprisonment and hard labour for a term not exceeding fourteen days, nor less than one day; or by public whipping or public exposure in the stocks, yet so as that no such offender shall receive more than twenty blows, or be exposed for more than two hours for any one offence.
VI. Any Justice of the Peace may lawfully arrest, or cause to be arrested, with or with Power to arrest and out warrant, any person whom he shall reasonably suspect to be an emissary or abettor of Her keep suspected Majesty's enemies, or of pirates, or of Chinamen disaffected to Her Majesty's Government, emissaries or abet- or otherwise dangerous to the peace and good order of this Colony, and him safely keep ufatil tors of enemies, &c. he can be dealt with according to law.
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