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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1888.

Pands.

Accounts.

Monuments.

Ropairs.

Crown rights reserved.

Repeal,

23. The Trustees shall collect all seat-rents and other moneys due or coming to the Church, and may at their discretion sue for the recovery of the same. The Trustees shall, out of the said sums, pay the salaries of all officers of the Church, and shall apply the surplus, if any, to such repairs and improvements of the Church and the Trust property as shall seem to them expedient.

24. The Trustees shall keep accounts of all money received and paid by them under the last Section, which accounts the Auditors or either of them may inspect at all reasonable times. Such accounts shall be brought down to the thirty-first day of March in each year, and then closed and audited by the Auditors. The audited account shall be laid before the Annual Meeting, and published as soon after such meeting as possible in the Government Gazette.

Monuments.

25. The Trustees may in their discretion permit the erection of any monument in the Church or in the enclosure surrounding it on payment of a fee of not less than one hundred dollars in each case. Any person having received permission to erect a monument shall be allowed to maintain the same.

26. The Trustees may order the removal of any monu- ment which shall have become ruinous, dilapidated, or unsightly, if the owner thereof cannot be found or refuses to properly repair and maintain such monument.

Crown Rights.

27. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs or successors, or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other person or persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.

Repeal.

28. Ordinances No. 2 of 1847 and No. 3 of 1850 are hereby repealed.

SCHEDULE.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Conveyance before Magistrate.

Magistrate may declare A person to be a vagrant.

Committal to work-house.

Power to detain,

A BILL

ENTITLED

The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1888.

Badvice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

1. This Ordinance may be called The Vagrancy Ordi- nance, 1888. It shall come into force at once.

2. In this Ordinance the term Vagrant means any person other than a Chinese found asking for alms or without any employment or visible means of subsistence.

Agent of a vessel includes any person who undertakes the agency of such vessel, though it may not have been consigned to him.

3. Any Police Officer may require any person who is apparently a vagrant to accompany him or any other Police Officer to and to appear before a Police Magistrate.

4. Such Police Magistrate shall in such case, or in any other case where a person apparently a vagrant comes before him, make a summary enquiry into the circumstances of such apparent vagrant and if satisfied that he is a vagrant shall declare him to be such.

5. If such Police Magistrate shall be further of opinion that such vagrant is not likely to obtain employment at once, or if he has reason to believe that a declaration of vagrancy has on any former occasion been recorded in respect of such vagrant, he shall require such vagrant to go to a Government work-house, and shall draw up an order to that effect.

6. The vagrant shall then be placed in charge of the Police for the purpose of being forwarded to the work- house, and the said order shall be a sufficient authority to the Police for retaining him in their charge while he is on his way to the work-house and to the superintendent of the work-house for receiving and detaining such vagrant.