HONGKONG.
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ANNO TRICESIMO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 9 of 1867.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to make further Provisions for the Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of Hongkong.
[17th June, 1867.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further Provision for the Maintenance of Order, and Cleanliness in the Colony of Hongkong: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
I. Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 is hereby repealed.
Title.
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 repealed.
Governor to appropriate a certain proportion of Fines.
II. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain proportion not exceeding three-fourths, of all Fines and Penalties recovered in any Court to payment of such Rewards, Bounties and Gratuities as he may from time to time award to any Member of the Police Force or to any Constable, for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sustained in the execution of his Duty, or to such private Persons or Informers, as the Governor may deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of Crimes, or the apprehension of Offenders.
The payment of Rewards to Informers.
III. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to frame such Regulations to be enforced by such Fines and Penalties as to him shall seem fit for the removal of Night Soil and the Depositing of rubbish and for the attainment of the objects contemplated by this Ordinance. Such Regulations shall be duly published in the Gazette, and from and after such publication to have the same force and effect as if they had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
IV. Section XII of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the insertion of the words "with or without Hard Labor" immediately after the words "Three Months" in the Fifth Line of the said Section.
Section XII of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
Enclosure in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's despatch 1.308 of 27 June, 1867.
V. Section XXI of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended by substituting for the words "Three Months" at the end of the said Section, the words "Six Months with or without Hard Labor."
VI. Every Male Person who, subsequently to the commencement 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 Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the Age of Sixteen Years, shall on conviction thereof, whether summarily or otherwise, be liable by the Sentence of such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to any other Punishment which may now be inflicted for such Offence: Provided that such Sentence shall specify the number of Strokes which shall in no case exceed Twenty, and Provided that the Instrument used shall be a Rattan.
Section XXI of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 amended.
Juvenile Offenders to be liable to be privately whipped in certain cases.
HONGKONG.
-267
ANNO TRICESIMO
VICTORIE REGINE.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 9 of 1867.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advies of the Legislative Council thereof, to make further Provisions for the Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of Hongkong,
[17th June, 1867.]
WHERE
THEREAS it is expedient to make further Provision for the Maintenance of Order, and Cleanliness in the Colony of Hongkong: Be it enacted by the Governor f Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
I. Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 is hereby repealed.
Title,
Preamble,
Optance No. 8 of 18 repealed.
Governor to appro-
II. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain proportion not exceeding Pe given to the three-fourths, of all Fines and Penalties recovered in any Court to payment of such priate a certain Rewards, Bounties and Gratuities as he may from time to time to any Member of that of Fines for Police Force or to any Constable, for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sada to the Police sustained in the execution of his Duty, or to such private Persons or Informers, as the radis Informers. Governor may deein deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of Crims,
or the apprehension of Offenders.
The payment of
III. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to frame ove given to the ich Regulations to be enforced by such Fines and Penalties as to him abili
for the removal of Night Soil and the Depositing of rubbish and for the attore
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had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
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of the words, "with or without Hard Labor" immediately after the words Months" in the Fifth Line of the said Section.
V. Section XXI of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended by subs tuting dection XXI of for the words "Three Months" at the end of the said Section, the words "Six Mon with or without Hard Labor."
VI. Every Male Person who, subsequently to the commencement of this O din cap shall be 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 I areny or punishable as Simple Larceny, and whose Age at the period of the Comme de attempted: Commission of such Offence, shall not, in the Opinion of the Cou; & deform whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the Age of Sixteen Years, hall on conviction thereof whether summarily or otherwise be liable by the Sentence of such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to any other Punishment which may now be inflicted for such Offence: Provided that such Sentence shall specify the number of Strokes which shall in no case exceed Twenty, and Provided that the Instrument used shall be a Rattan.
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