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HONGKONG.

ANNO SEXTO ET SEPTIMO

VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. 2 of 1844.

NOrdinance by His Excellency Sir HENRY POTTINGER Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Major General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to regulate the Printing of Books and Papers, and the Keeping of Printing Presses within the Colony of Hongkong,

[28th February, 1844.]

Rules herein after mentioned.

BE it enacted, that from and after the first day of April now next ensuing, no printed Periodical work whatever, containing public news or comments on public he published save in No Newspaper to news, shall be published within the Colony of Hongkong, except in conformity with accordance with the the Rules hereinafter laid down.

1.-The Printer and the Publisher of every such Periodical work shall before the Chief Magistrate of Police at Hongkong, and shail make and subscribe blisher to make de- appear Printer and Pu- in duplicate the following declaration "1. A. B. declare that I am the Printer claration.

(or Publisher, or Printer and Publisher) of the Periodical work intitled

or printed and published) at Hongkong,"

and printed (or published,

and the last blankin this form of déclaration shall be filed up with a true and precise account of the premise where the printing or pub ication is conducted.

2-As often as the place of printing or publication is changed a new declaration shall be necessary.

Punishment and

New declaration on 3-As often as the Printer or the Publisher, who shall have made such

chango of residence. New declaration declaration as is aforesaid, shall leave the Colony of Hongkong, a new declaration on former Printer or from a Printer or Publisher resident within the said Clony shall be necessary. Publisher leaving

2.-And be it enacted, that whoever shall print or publish any such periodical

the Colony. work as is herein before prescribed, without conforming to the Rites hereinbefore Penalty for non-ob- laid down, or whoever shall print or publish, or shall cause to be printed or servance of above published, any such Periodical work, knowing that the said Rules have not been Rules. observed with respect to that work, shall on conviction be punished with line, to an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

3.And be it enacted, that each of the two originals, of every declaration so Declaration to be made and subscribed as is aforesaid, shall be authenticated by the signature and deposited in Office seal of the said Chief Magistrate of Police; and one of the said originals shall be of Chief Magistrats and in the Supreno deposited among the Records of the office of the said Chief Magistrate, and the tort. other original shall be deposited among the Records of such Supreme Court of

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