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HONGKONG,

ANNO. NONO

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 12 of 1845.

Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baro-

By net, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of

Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Sub- jects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1845, Title. ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE TRIAD

AND OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG AND

ITS DEPENDENCIES.

[20th October, 1845.]

I. WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the said Preamble. Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, with a view to introducing certain limitations, and giving additional certainty to its provisions:

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Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Operation of the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Ordinance No. 1 of Council thereof, That no person or persons shall be considered certain cases. as coming within the provisions or intent of the before men- tioned Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, who shall have joined the Triad Society in ignorance of its designs, or under the influ- ence of terror, or who shall not be duly convicted of active participation in some unlawful act arising out of his or their connection with the said Society,

II. And be it farther enacted and ordained, That so far as Convicts to be the said enactment provides that any Offender shall, in addi- marked as in the tion to the other Punishments or Penalties contained in the and banished from case of Deserters, said Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, be marked on the right cheek, the Island, at the the same be, and is hereby repealed: But it is further pro- Court. vided, that in case of any conviction under these Ordinances, or either of them, the presiding Judge shall in his discretion have

discretion of the