THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 352.
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The following Police Regulations are published under the provisions of Section 19 of Ordinance 14 of 1887.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Regulations made by the Captain Superintendent of Police under the provisions of Section 19 of Ordinance 14 of 1887, for the general government and discipline of the Police Force,
on the 28th day of June, 1887.
1. No Subordinate Officer or Constable shall take directly or indirectly any gratuity or reward whatsoever without the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
2. No Subordinate Officer or Constable shall take either money or goods, or money's worth, or anything whatsoever as a bribe from any person or persons, directly or indirectly, and he shall not suffer any person or persons to take money, or money's worth, or anything whatsoever as a bribe on his behalf, or in his interest, or to be placed to his credit, or that of any relative or friend for his benefit.
3. No Subordinate Officer or Constable shall take fruit or any article without payment from any hawker, stall, or shop.
4. No Subordinate Officer or Constable shall sell, pawn, lose by neglect, make away with, or wilfully damage, his arms, accoutrements, or any article of clothing or equipment, the property of the Government, that he may be put in possession of.
5. Subordinate Officers and Constables are to report to the Captain Superintendent of Police, if they have reason to suspect the existence of a public gambling or gaming house, but they are on no account themselves to go in or to send any one else for the purpose of obtaining proof.
They will on no account enter any gambling or gaming house except under special permission, or by authority of a warrant under the signature of a Justice of the Peace, or in pursuit of a person whom they have power to apprehend.
6. Aggravated cases of drunkenness such as drunk on or for duty, drunk and disorderly, or riotous, drunk and resisting escort, &c., may be punished by a Magistrate or Captain Superintendent according to the nature and degree of the offence.
T. C. DEMPSTER, Major,
Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.
Approved by the Governor in Council, this 1st day of July, 1887.
J. M. GUTIERREZ,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 353.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to recognise, until further notice, HENRI LÉON VERLEYE, Esquire, as in charge of the French Consulate at this Port.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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