CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 468

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there

i ne judge of Count summary jurisdiction kow -

That referred to Asø. 7 of 1862.

* Substitute Supreme Court in its appeicutë jurisdiction.

For Julge prod Court

This Action shouta jollar 15.

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The Registrar tieneral shall give notice of such investiga- tion by advertisement in the Gazette and also to the parties interested in the land whereon such house is situate so far as they can be ascertained by reference to the records of the Land Office, but the want of such notice shall not invalidate any proceedings.

The Registrar General shall take notes of the evidence given during such investigation, and if he is of opinion that such house or part of a house as aforesaid is an unregistered brothel, he shall declare the same to be such under his hand and seal of office, and notification of such declaration shall be inserted in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the making thereof. A copy of the Gazette containing such notification shall be conclusive evidence of such declaration, and of the matter notitled, but subject to appeal as herein- after provided.

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Notice of web Investigation. (bid, son, 22.3

Declaration by Igistrar General that a hrase or pirt

of a house ia An 4- loud bruthel. [[rict, seo. 23.}

Apport fro Euch declara- tion to a Judges of the Court of Summuy risdiction. [ibút, ace. 24.]

Auy person aggrieved or affected by any such declaration may within ten days from the date of the notification thereof in the Gazette appeal from the decision of the Registrar General to the Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and the Registrar General shall upon notice of such appeal forthwith transmit to the said judge the notes of the evidence taken by him during such investigation and apou which such declaration has been made, and for the purposes of such appeal shall take and transmit in manner aforesaid such further evidence as the said judge shall direct, and the said minutes and further evidence if any shall be laid before) the said judge who may confirm the said declaration or may order in writing the same to be cancelled. 7 einer a mi dikemization

18. Any person who appears or behaves as the person having the care or management of any unregistered brothel, shall be deemed to be the keeper thereof and shall be liable to be punished as such.

19. Whenever any house or part of a house has been twice declared by the Registrar General to be an unregis- tered brothel, the Registrar General may by warrant under his hand remove all the inmates of such house or part of a house and close up the same, and the same shall not be re- inhabited unless the Registrar General is satisfied that it will be occupied in a proper and legal manner and not as an Huregistered brothel, or unless the Governor otherwise directa, and every person knowingly re-inhabiting any house or part of a honse so closed up without the permission of the Governor or of the Registrar General shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months,

20. The Governor may from time to time appoint and remove fit persons to be respectively Inspector of Hospitals and Visiting Surgeons and Superintendent of Hospitals, and such other officers as may be required for the carrying out of this Ordinance, and may regulate their respective duties and salaries. Until the Governor otherwise directs, and during any vacancy, the Colonial Surgeon shall be Inspector of Hospitals.

The Governor may from time to time appoint any build- ings or parts of buildings as hospitals for the purposes of this Ordinance, and the fact of such buildings or parts of buildings being so appointed shall be notified in the Gazette, and a copy of the Gazette containing any such notification shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

21. Every woman detained in a hospital shall during the period of such detention be carefully provided for and furnished free of expense to her with lodging, clothing,

and food.

22. The expenses which may be incurred in or about the treatment of any prostitute detained in a hospital, as specified in the last section, shall be a debt due to the crown and payable by the keeper of the brothel or by the keeper or person apparently in charge of the house wherein sich person may have been residing, and in case of non-payment may be sued for and recovered from such keeper or person by the Registrar General, or other duly anthorized officer, but no keeper of a registered brothel shall be liable to such payment unless the amount thereof has been certified by a Visiting Surgeon to be in accordance with the scale of charges specified in regulations made under this Ordinance.

Who sha!! be

dermed kooper

of a reg}+-

tur brothel. [[bich, anc. 25.]

Pretufees twise declared in ba an anregistered trothel.usy

be closed ap. [[biel, wo. 23.)

Appciatatert

of Officers (bich, seo. 24.)

Power of

Ünvernor to

provide hospi-

Fals

Ibid, sne. 35.}

Care and treatment of

detsiued in hospital.

[bid, c. 39.7

Expanser of

tomátinent DĚ women in hospitala.

[ibid, neck, 10 and 41)