CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 652

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REG 25 MAY 19

A BILL

ENTITLED

No. 14 :-[21.4.99.}]

An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordi

nance, 1897.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vagrancy Short title. (Amendment) Ordinance, 1899.

2. Clause (c.) of section 21 of Ordinance No. 25 of Ameniment 1897 is, hereby, repealel, and, in lieu thereof, the clause of scc. 21 of following shall be substituted and form part of such section, namely:--

Ord. 23 of 1897.

(e.) Whenever any seaman other than a Chinese is Substituted discharged from his ship, in this Colony, without the clause (©). sanction of the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office or his Deputy, and without reasonable provision having been made as to his subsistence,

or, not being a desertor, is wrongfally left behind in this Colony."

3. Section 22 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1897 is hereby Amendment of sec. 22 of Amended by

(1.) Inserting the words "and not having been ship. Or, 25 of

wrecked "after the word "Chioase" iu that section,

and

(ii) By striking out from that section the worls “or

becomes so within a period of six mouths.”

1897.

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