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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MAY, 1891.

BE

A BILL

ENTITLED

The Forts Protection Ordinance, 1891.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. No person shall enter any battery, field-work or for- tification in this Colony unless he is the bearer of a written order for that purpose duly granted to him by the Officer in command of Her Majesty's regular forces in this Colony, or unless he be an officer or soldier of Her Majesty's re- gular troops employed on military duty in this Colony; and any person who enters any such battery, field-work or fortification contrary to this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any time not exceeding three months.

Any order granted to any contractor employed by the officer commanding the Royal Engineers shall cover all Chinese labourers specifically mentioned in such order actually employed on work in any battery, field-work or fortification.

any

2. If any person enters or attempt to enter or is found in such battery, field-work or fortification, any guard may require such person to show his order for the purpose, and if such person upon being so required does not pro- duce and show his order, or if the said guard suspects that the order produced and shown to him is not an order duly granted to such person or not sufficient authority for such person to be in the said battery, field-work or fortification, he may arrest such person forthwith and deliver him into the charge of a constable or officer of the Police Force.

3. The term "guard" in this Ordinance shall include any soldier or sentry belonging to Her Majesty's regular troops who is employed on military duty in any such field-work, battery or fortification,

No verson to enter any fortißcation unless he is bourer of su order or is an officer or suldier.

Penalty.

Order grantel to contraC, OF to include workmen.

Sentry to arrest any person enter-

ing contrary to this Ordinance.

Word **guard "

defined.

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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to provide against abuses connected with the eréction of Public Latrines.

WHEREAS tection of Public Latrines for private

HEREAS it is desirable to prevent the evils arising

profit in places where they are not required or are objec- tionable and likely to become a nuisance. Be it therefore 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 Latrine Ordi- nance, 1891,

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2. The words "Public Latrine' in this Ordinance shall mean and include any latrine to which the public are admitted on payment or otherwise.

3. No Public Latrine shall be erected until the pre- vious sanction of the Sanitary Board in writing has been obtained.

4. The Sanitary Board shall not incur any legal liability in respect of having granted such sauction, nor shall such sanction protect the owner of any Public Latrine from any liability to an injunction or other legal proceedings should the latrine be at any time so conducted as to become a nuisance, or its erection be contrary to agreement or be otherwise wrongful.

5. The Sanitary Board shall have powers to make and when made to alter, amend or revoke, bye-laws with regard to the erection of Public Latrines.

Short title.

Meaning of "Public Latrine,"

Sanction of the Sanitary Board to be obtained

before erection.

Effect of such sanction,

Bye-laws.