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Keeping house for or shall keep any house for the occupancy of public prostitutes, or shall keep or be prostitutes. Frequent found in any gambling shop whereof notice shall not have been given to the Chief ing gambling houses. Magistrate of Police, or shall have in his possession any spar, bludgeon, or other Having unlawful im-

offensive weapon, or any crowbar, picklock, skeleton key, or other instrument fit for plement in his pos- session with intent unlawful purposes, with intent to use the same for such unlawful purpose, or if any to use the same. As persons shall assemble together in the night time without a lawful reason for so Boubling in the night assembling, or if any person secing any such assemblage, or knowing or having reason to suspect that such assemblage, was about to be or had been made, shall not raise an Not giving notice of alarm and give immediate notice thereof to the nearest guard house or police station, such assemblage. Be or if any person shall behave in a riotous, noisy, or disorderly manner, although no having riotously. Be actual breach of the peace shall take place, or shall be seen draak in any public road ing drunk. Using im proper language, In or passage, or shall use any profane or indecent language, or insult any female in public, sulting females. Pro- or shall make any offensive jokes, gestures, or threats towards any one present which voking a breach of shall be likely to create a breach of the peace, or shall challenge any one to fight, or if the peace

any person shall beg, or expose any sore or infirmity to view with the object of exciting Begging or exposing compassion and obtaining alms, or shall lewdly or indecently expose his person by person. Not giving a bathing or otherwise near any public road, or shall not be able to give a satisfactory satisfactory account account of himself and of his way of living, or who being abroad at night time shall not give a satisfactory reason for BIO being, or if any persons shalt pretend to tell fortunes, Cheats or impos. or to exercise any magic arts, or shall otherwise impose on the credulity or superstition tures. Playing in pu- of any one whatsoever, with a view to gain, or shall attempt to defraud any person of blic-roads

any money by pretending that the same is counterfeit, or if any person shall play at Obstructing or re- any rame in any public passage or road so as to obstruct the same or create a noisy fusing to assist offissenbly therein, or shall resist any justice of the peace, constable, peace officer, or police cer in his duty

may in the execution of his duty, or shall neglect to assist such officer therein when Servant quitting em- called upon so to do, or if any person employed as a domestic servant or otherwise shall ploy without givis quit his employers service without giving such warning thereof as shall afford reasonable warning or exposing time to his employer to procure another person to act in his stead, or shall neglect or hisemployers proper- ty to injury or wilful absent himself from his duty without leave, so as to destroy injure or endanger the safety ly disobeying orders. of his employers property, or shall wilfully disobey such employers lawful and reasonable Watchmen sleeping orders, or if any person employed as a guard or watchman shall sleep at his post, or be being negligent or negligent remiss or cowardly in the execution of his duty, or if any person shall want cowardly. Cruelly only and cruelly mutilate or otherwise illuse any horse, mule, dog or other animal injuring animale de. without necessity. Then and in every such case the person so offending shall forfeit Penalty

and pay to Her Majesty Her Heirs and sucessors for the public purposes of the Colony of Hongkong such sum not exceeding two hundred dollars as shall be adjudged in the manner hereinafter mentioned.

After one convic- 2.-And be it enacted that after conviction for any offence against this Ordinance, tion offender liable the offender shall be ordered by the convicting justice or justices to do such Act as the to double penalties, subject matter of the case may require and shall be allowed a reasonable time to perform such order, but that at the expiration of such time, if he shall still be an offender against the provisions of this Ordinance, he shall be liable to be convicted in double the penalty formerly inflicted, notwithstanding such double penalty shall amount to more than the sum of two hundred dollars, and if such offender shall still persist in offending against this Ordinance he shall be liable to be repeatedly convicted in such double penalty. Person refusing to

3.And be it enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Police of comply with

this the Colony of Hongkong, or other officer duly authorized by the Chief Magistrate of Ordinance Superin- Police of the said Colony, to require any person whose duty it shall be to remove any tendent of Police to filth or obstruction, or do any other matter or thing required to be done by this Ordinance, charge him double so to do within a certain time to be then fixed by the said Superintendent of Police or other officer, and that in default of such requisition being complied with, the said Superintendent of Police or other officer shall and may cause to be removed such filth or obstruction, or do or cause to be done such other matter or thing as aforesaid, himself, and the person so in default shall, in addition to the penalties herein before mentioned, be liable to pay double the expense thereof which shall be recoverable in the same manner as any penalty provided by this Ordinance.

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Recovery of pe- nalties.

4-And be it enacted that the penalties provided by this Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner by proceeding to be had before the Chief, Marine, of Assistant Magistrates of Police sitting singly, or before any two Justices of the Peace for the said Colony of Hongkong.

HENRY POTTINGER. Governor of Hongkong, &c. &c. &c.

Passed the Legislative Council, this 20th day of March, 1844.

RICHARD BUNGASS.

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

HONGKONG, Published by Authority.

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