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V. Any Person who, subsequently to the passing of this Ordinance, shall be charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider, abettor, counsellor, or procurer, in the commission of any offence which now is or hereafter may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the Justice of the Peace before whom he or she shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of Sixteen Years, shall on conviction thereof, be liable to be Imprisoned with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Three Months, or in the discretion of such Justice, shall forfeit and pay such Sum, not exceeding Twenty Dollars, as the said Justice shall adjudge, and if a male, shall be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to, such Imprisonment or Fine, provided that the number of strokes inflicted shall not exceed Twenty and the instrument used shall be a Rattan.
VI. From and after the day of passing of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a License to do so from the Registrar General, which License shall remain in force for One Year, and for which the Sum of Ten Dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
VII. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a License, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate any of the conditions contained in the said Licenses shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor for any term not exceeding Three Months.
VIII. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, the keeping of Pigs or of other animals likely to be injurious to the public health, within the city of Victoria is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a Pig or other such animal in the said City of Victoria, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Five Dollars, and in default of payment shall be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days, and the said Pig or other animal shall also be forfeited.
IX. Any person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop in the Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months; and in case the Person convicted shall be a licensed Spirit Dealer, or Boarding house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his license.
X. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any Constable or credible person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food, is exposed, or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawful for such Justice in his discretion, to grant a Warrant to any Constable to enter and search any such house or shop by day, and such Constable may, if necessary, break open the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, detain the same until the Owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed; but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper Owner. And in case of conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition any Fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution of the said Warrant.
XI. It shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor to appoint a duly qualified Medical Practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual Salary as may be voted.
XII. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two resident Medical Practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupied by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a Summons against the Householder, within the meaning of the Registration Ordinance of 1866, of such House, or if such Householder shall be absent from the Colony, against his accredited Agent, if any, by Notice affixed to the House, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit: and in case any order so made shall not be complied with by the said Householder, or his accredited Agent as aforesaid, within Seven Days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said Order, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said Order may be Imprisoned for not exceeding Three Months.
XIII. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same; any person refusing to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such House shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Dollars and not less than Five Dollars, or in default of payment to be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days.
XIV. Whenever the holder of any License for the sale of Spirituous Liquors shall permit any instalment of his License Fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment, may be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding One Month.
XV. Whenever any Person who has been deported under the provisions of any Ordinance, shall return to the Colony of Hongkong before the expiration of his sentence, without permission from His Excellency the Governor, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order him to be again deported for any period to be then fixed, and in addition to be previously Imprisoned for One Month with Hard Labor and to be branded and to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged, but in no case shall the number of strokes inflicted at one time exceed Thirty-six.
XVI. Any person who shall knowingly Harbor or Conceal, in the Colony of Hongkong, any such Chinese under sentence of Deportation, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars or in default of payment, to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor, for any term not exceeding Six Months.
XVII. And whereas the Evils of Gambling in the Colony are found to be on the increase notwithstanding the application of the Penal Laws in force for their Prevention, it is expedient to devise and adopt further measures for the gradual control and ultimate Suppression thereof; Be it therefore enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to frame and pass such Rules, Regulations and Conditions as may be deemed expedient for the total Suppression or in the meanwhile for the better limitation and control of Gambling in this Colony, with Power from time to time to alter and amend such Rules and Regulations or repeal the same or any part thereof.
XVIII. Any Person violating any of the Rules, Regulations or Conditions to be from time to time framed and passed by the Governor in Council in pursuance of this Ordinance, or any of the Conditions imposed thereunder for the better limitation and control of Gambling, shall be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police to a Penalty not exceeding Two hundred Dollars and not less than Twenty Dollars, and to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any period not exceeding Six Calendar Months and not less than One Calendar Month.
XIX. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or Constable, and also for any Person authorized thereto by the Governor to enter any House, Room, Vessel, Boat and Place, either on Land or Water within the limits of this Colony, and to arrest therein any Person violating or suspected of having within Twenty-four Hours previous to such arrest violated any such Rules, Regulations or Conditions as aforesaid and to seize all Instruments of Gaming, Tables, Dice and other Implements used in Gambling, and also all Monies and Securities for Money found on such Persons or in such House, Room, Boat, Vessel and Place aforesaid, and all such Implements of Gambling, Monies and Securities for Money if proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of Police to have been used or kept for purposes of Gambling shall be forfeited to the Crown; and all Persons convicted of violating the Rules, Regulations and Conditions aforesaid shall in addition to the forfeitures specified in this Section be liable to be fined in any Sum or Imprisoned for any period named in the Rules to be framed by the Governor in Council under Section XVII.
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V. Any Person who, subsequently to the passing of this Ordinance, shall be be privately whipped charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider, abettor, counseller, or procurer, in the commission of any offence which now is or hereafter may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the Justice of the Peace before whom he or she shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of Sixteen Years, shall on conviction thereof, be liable to be Imprisoned with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Three Months, or in the discretion of such Justice, shall forfeit and pay such Sum, not exceeding Twenty Dollars, as the said Justice shall adjudge, and if a male, shall be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to, such Imprisonment or Fine, provided that the number of strokes inflicted shall not exceed Twenty and the instrument used shall be a Rattan.
Chinese Money- Changers to be Licensed.
Penalty on an Un-
as Money Changer,
day of
VI. From and after the
it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a License to do so from the Registrar General, which License shall remain in force for One Year, and for which the Sum of Ten Dollars shall be. annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
VII. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a Money-Changer licensed Person acting in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a License, or after the expira
tion of the same, or who shall violate any of the conditions contained in the said Licenses shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor for any term not exceeding Three Months,
No Pigs or other Animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and un- wholesome Food or
seized; Penalty on Persons selling the
VIII. From and after the passing of this Ordinance the keeping of Pigs or of other animals likely to be injurious to the public health, within the city of Victoria is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a Pig or other such animal in the said City of Victoria, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Five Dollars, and in default of payment shall be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days, and the said Pig or other animal shall also be forfeited.
IX. Any person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop in the Liquor, &c., may be Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereo before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned with or without Härd Labor, for any Ter not exceeding Six Months; and in case the Person convicted shall be a licensed Spiri Dealer, or Boarding house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his license.
same,
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Power to the
X. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any Constable or credible person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious. adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article food, is exposed, or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawin for such Justice in his discretion, to grant a Warrant to any Constable to enter and search any such house or shop by day, and such Constable may, if necessary, break oper the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, detain the same until the Owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it sta appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxiou adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroye but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper Owner. And in case of conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition any Fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution the said Warraut.
XI. It shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor to appoint a duly qualitie Governor to appoint Medical Practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform su
duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct who shall receive such annual Salary as may be voted.
a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded Lodging Houses.
XII. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two reside Medical Practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupi by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome s as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourbo it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a Sumuno
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any term XIII. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to Penatry on persons enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same; any person refusing to permit refusing to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such House shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Dollars and not less than Five Dollars, or in default of payment to be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days.
their Houses to be inspected.
the instalments of
XIV. Whenever the holder of any License for the sale of Spirituous Liquors Penalty on Licensed shall permit any instalment of his License Fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he shall, ou Spirit Dealers allowing conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding their License Fees to Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment, may be be in arrear. Imprisoned for any term not exceeding One Month.
deported, returning
XV. Whenever any Person who has been deported under the provisions of Penalty on Persons any Ordinance, shall return to the Colony of Hongkong before the expiration of who have been his sentence, without permission from His Excellency the Governor, it shall be lawful without permission for the Governor in Council to order him to be again deported for any period to be to the Colony. then fixed, and in addition to be previously Imprisoned for One Mouth with Hard· Labor and to be branded and to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged, but in no case shall the number of strokes inflicted at one time exceed Thirty-six.
Harbering Chinese
XVI. Any person who shall knowingly Harbor or Conceal, in the Colony of Penalty on persons Hongkong, any such Chinese under sentence of Deportation, shall on conviction thereof knowingly before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars and not under sentence of less than Ten Dollars or in default of payment, to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Deportation. Labor, for any term not exceeding Six Months.
Rules for limitation
XVII. And whereas the Evils of Gambling in the Colony are found to be on the Gambling--Governor increase notwithstanding the application of the Penal Laws in force for their Prevention, in Council to frame and it is expedient to devise and adopt further measures for the gradual control and and control of. ultimate Suppression thereof; Be it therefore enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to frame and pass such Rules, Regulations and Conditions as may be deemed expedient for the total Suppression or in the meanwhile for the better limitation and control of Gambling in this Colony, with Power from time to time to alter and amend such Rules and Regulations or repeal the same or any part thereof.
XVIII. Any Person violating any of the Rules, Regulations or Conditions to be penalty for violating from time to time framed and passed by the Governor in Council in pursuance of this Rules of Governor in Ordinance, or any of the Conditions imposed thereunder for the better limitation and Council. control of Gambling, shall be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police to a Penalty not exceeding Two hundred Dollars and not less than Twenty Dollars, and to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any period not exceeding Six Calendar Months and not less than One Calendar Month.
and others.
XIX. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or Constable, and also for Powers of Justices of any Person authorized thereto by the Governor to enter any House, Room, Vessel, the Peace, Constables Boat and Place, either on Land or Water within the limits of this Colony, and to arrest therein any Person violating or suspected of having within Twenty-four Hours previous to such arrest violated any such Rules, Regulations or Conditions as aforesaid and to seize all Instruments of Gaming, Tables, Dice and other Implements used in Gambling, and also all Monies and Securities for Money found on such Persons or in such House, Room, Boat, Vessel and Place aforesaid, and all such Implements of Gambling, Monies and Securities for Money if proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of Police to have been used or kept for purposes of Gambling shall be forfeited to the Crown; and all Persons convicted of violating the Rules, Regulations and Conditions aforesaid--shall in addition to the forfeitures specified in this Section be liable to be fined in any Suin or Imprisoned for any period named in the Rules to be framed by the Governor in Council under Section XVII.
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