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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13тH MARCH, 1886.

EXTRAORDINARY WORKS.

5 of 1885. For building of a retaining wall to prevent landslips at the rear of Inland Lot 696,

East of the Government Civil Hospital, re-vote,

and

377 of 1886.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

.$ 945.00

BILL ENTITLED THE TRADE MARES ORDINANCE, AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1886.- Read a Second TIME.-COMMITTED AND PASSED.-On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a second time.

The Attorney General then moved that the Council go into Committee on the Bill. Question-put and passed.

Bill reported without amendment.

Bill read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned to Wednesday, the 10th instant, at 4 P.M.

W. H. MARSH,

Read and confirmed, this 10th day of March, 1886.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councits.

Administering the Government.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 89.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published for general information.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 10th March, 1886.

ARATNOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

Short Title.

Application of 5 Geo. IV. c. 83.

Provisions as to gaming with coin, &c. [36 & 37 V. o 33 8.3.]

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to

Vagrants.

Be advice of the Legislative Council thereck, as follows

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

1. This Ordinance may be cited as Ordinance, 1886.

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The Vagrants.

2. The Act passed in the Fifth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth chapter Eighty-three entitled: "An Act for the punishment of idle and disor- derly persons and rogues and vagabonds in that part of Great Britain called England" shall so far as it is applicable to the circumstances of the Colony is hereby declared to have been in force in the Colony, and the said Act and this Ordinance shall be construed together.

3. Every person playing or betting by way of wagering or gaming in any street, road, highway, or other open and publie place, or in any open place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, at or with any table or instrument of gaming or any coin, card, token, or other article used as an instrument or means of such wagering or gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond within the true intent and meaning of the said Act and as such may be convicted and punished under the provisions of that Act or in the discre- tion of the Magistrate or Justices trying the case in lieu of such punishment by a penalty for the first offence not exceeding $10, and for the second or any subsequent offence not exceeding $25: ·

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