THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1887.
Register of Criminals.
12. The following enactments shall be made with a view to facilitate the identification of criminals :—
(1.) Registers of all persons convicted of crime in the Colony shall be kept in such form and containing such particulars as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor :
(2.) The register shall be kept under the management of the Captain Superintendent of Police or such other person as the Governor may appoint: (3.) The Superintendent of Victoria Gaol shall make returns of the persons convicted of crime and coming within his custody; and such returns shall be in such form and contain such particulars as the Governor may require:
(4.) The Governor may make regulations as to the photographing of all prisoners convicted of crime who may for the time being be confined in Victoria Gaol and may in such regulations prescribe the time or times at which and the manner and dress in which such prisoners are to be taken, and the number of photographs of each prisoner to be printed, and the persons to whom such photographs are to be sent:
(5.) Any regulations made by the Governor as to the photographing of prisoners in any prison in the Colony shall be deemed to be regulations for the Government of that prison, and binding on all persons, in the same manner as if they were contained in the Rules made under section 17 of Ordinance 18 of 1885.
(6.) Any prisoner refusing to obey any regulation made in pursuance of this section shall be deemed guilty of an offence against prison discipline within the meaning of section 16 of Ordinance 18 of 1885.
(7.) The Governor may from time to time modify,
repeal, or add to any regulations so made:
13. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Colony shall be divided into the Police districts in Schedule B set forth.
Register and photograph❤ ing of crimi
nals. (34 & 35 Vic. c. 112 8. 6.)
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SCHEDULES.
(A.)
Order of Licence to a Convict made under Ordinance
[L.S.]
The Governor is pleased to grant to
who was convicted of
day of
of 188.
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at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, for the Colony of Hongkong on the
188 and was then and there sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for the term
and is now confined in the
of
his Licence to be at large from the day of his liberation under this Order during the remaining portion of his said term of Penal Servitude unless the said
shall before the
expiration of the said term be convicted of some indictable offence within the Colony, in which case such licence will be immediately forfeited by law, or unless it shall please the Governor sooner to revoke or alter such licence.
This licence is given subject to the Conditions indorsed upon the same, upon the breach of any of which it will be liable to be revoked, whither such breach is followed by a conviction or not.
And the Governor hereby orders that the said
be set at liberty within thirty days from the date of this Order, Given under my hand and seal at Victoria, Hongkong, this day of
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By His Excellency's Command, ́
Colonial Secretary.
CONDITIONS.
1. The holder shall preserve his licence and produce it when called upon to do so by a Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or Police Officer.
2. He shall abstain from any violation of the law.
3. He shall not habitually associate with notoriously bad charac-
ters, such as reputed thieves and prostitutes.
4. He shall not lead an idle and dissolute life without visible
means of obtaining an honest livelihood.
If his licence is forfeited or revoked in consequence of a convic-
tion for any offence, he will be liable to undergo a term of Penal Servitude equal to the portion of his term of years which remained unexpired when his licence was granted, viz., the term of
years.
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