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Conclosure 3.
To
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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Rec 13 NOV 09
THE EARL OF CREWE, K, G., P. C.
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Humble Petition
of the undersigned Chinese Inhabitants and Firms of Hongkong on behalf of themselves and their fellow countrymen
residing thereat
Most respectfully sheweth:-
I. That Your petitioners are Chinese residents of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and firms carrying on business therein, who together with the rest of your petitioners' Chinese fellow-citizens represent about ninety five per cent of the whole population of the Colony and constitute seventeen-twentieths of the rate payers.
II. That in the beginning of the year 1908 the Sanitary Board of Hongkong appointed from its members a Committee to consider the advisability of adding to the Public Health and Building Ordinance certain regulations against spitting and to report and make recommendations for the framing of bye-laws relating thereto.
III. That at a meeting held on the 21st January 1908 the said Committee submitted their report to the said Board, in which they made certain recommendations rendering spitting an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment. The subject was fully discussed by the said Board at various meetings, and ultimately at a meeting held on the 10th November of the same year the members then present having failed to come to an agreement, the measure was abandoned.
IV. Chat on the 3rd day of December 1908 there was introduced in the Legislative Council and read a first time a Bill entitled “An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, and to effect certain other amendments in the Criminal law in which
spitting was made a Criminal offence.
V. That by Section 7 of this Bill it was proposed to amend Section 3 of the Sum-
mary Offences Ordinance 1845, by the addition thereto at the end of that Section of the follow- ing subsection, namely:-
"(18) Spits on the floor of any school-house, theatre, public buildings, or other places "of public entertainment or assembly or of any common entrance, lobby. hall, passage way, corridor or staircase of any building used or occupied for 'shops, offices, or flats, or in any licensed public vehicle, or in
train or any railway car, or on any wharf or jetty, or on any footway or side walk of a public street"
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