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1126 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH DECEMBER, 1896.

Short title.

Delivery to owner of

property unlawfully pawned, with compensation

to pawn- broker.

35 & 36 Vict. d.

93 s. 30 ($).

Ibid. s. 30 (3).

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to provide for compensation being

paid to Pawnbrokers in certain cases.

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E 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 Pawnbrokers Compensation Ordinance, 1896.

2. In each of the following cases :-

(1.) If any person is convicted in any Court of felon- iously taking or fraudulently obtaining any goods and chattels, and it appears to the Court that the same have been pawned with a Pawnbroker; or (2.) If in any proceedings before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction it appears to the Court that any goods and chattels brought before the Court have been unlawfully pawned with a Pawnbroker;

the Court, on proof of the ownership of the goods and chattels, may, if it thinks fit, order the delivery thereof to the owner, either on payment to the Pawnbroker of the amount of the loan, advanced by him thereon, or of any part thereof, or without payment of such loan or any part thereof, as to the Court, according to the conduct of the owner and the other circumstances of the case, seems just and fitting.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to assimilate our local law to that in force in England by empowering the Court, if it thinks fit, to award some compensation to a pawnbroker, in cases where property, which has been wrongfully obtained or illegally pawned, is restored to the true owner.

As our law at present stands the Court possesses no such power, and it seems desirable to remedy the defect.

HENRY E. POLLOCK, Acting Attorney General,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 460.

The following Bye-law is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colorial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th December, 1896.

BYE-LAW

Made under sub-section 4 of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887.

THE CLEANSING AND LIME-WHITING OF PREMISES.

Any house, or part of a house, which is occupied by members of more than one family shall- unless specially exempted by the Sanitary Board-be cleansed and lime-washed throughout, by the owner, to the satisfaction of the said Board not less than twice in every year, namely, during the months of January and February and of July and August in the eastern division of the City and in the eastern division of Kau-lung; during the months of March and April and of September and October in the central division of the City and in the western division of Kau-lung; and during the months of May and June and of November and December in the western division of the City; and notice of such intended cleansing and lime-washing shall be sent to the Secretary of the Sanitary Board three clear days before the work is commenced.

Made by the Sanitary Board, this 13th day of August, 1896.

Approved by the Legislative Council, this 3rd day of December, 1896.

HUGH MCCALLUM,

Secretary.

F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils.

NOTE--The western boundary of the eastern division of the City is Garden Road; the western boundary of the central division of the City is Morrison and East Streets; the western division of the City lies to the west of Morrison and East Streets. is divided into eastern and western divisions by Robinson Road and a straight line drawn The Kau-lung Peninsula from the north end thereof to the boundary of British territory.