CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 498

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The Registrar General 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 notified, but subject to appeal as herein- after provided.

Any 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 Supreme Court, and the Registrar General shall upon notice of such appeal forth with transmit to the said Court the notes of the evidence taken by him during such investigation and upon which such declaration has been made, and the said minutes shall be laid before the said Court who may confirm the said declaration or may order the same to be cancelled or direct a fresh determination.

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 theroof 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 mauner and not as an anregistered brothel, or unless the Governor otherwise directs, and every person knowingly re-inhabiting any house or part of a house 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 raonths.

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 Inspector of Hospitals shall bave all the powers of a Visiting Surgeon.

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 farnished free of expense to her with lodging, clothing, and food.

Not of saat: investigation,

{{bid, sec, 22]

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 such person may have been residing, and in case of non-payment may be sned for and recovered from such keeper or person by the Registrar General, or other duly authorized 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.

Declaration

by Begleitur General that » hawae or part of a house is na unregis tered brothel. [bid, seo, 23.)

Appon from Buch selara- tion to a Judge of the Court

of Hummary

Jurisdiction. [2bid, c. 14.]

Who shall be demod keeper of an erregis- tered

(Ibid, sec. 5.)

Promisea twin declared to be su unregistered brothel mas he closed up. [Itria, Kec. 29.]

Appointment

of Officers (Ibid, ves, 34.]

Power of Dovernor to provide hospi

_fbid, sang 3. }

Care anŮ

treatment of women detained in hoaનુta. [back, sec. 19.)

Expenses of treatment of women in hospitaly.

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