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4. Every person who commits an offence against this Penalties.. Ordinance, and every person who attempts to do any act which would be an offence against this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, and shall upon conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Cases frequently occur in which threats of violence are used by societies and individuals in order to force the person threatened to do some act which he is not legally bound to do or to abstain from doing some act which he is legally entitled to do. These threats are sometimes carried out, even to the extent of murder. Sometimes the threat is intended to induce a person to do an illegal act, e.g., to join the Triad Society. In other cases it is made in order to build up or retain some exclusive guild privilege which is arbitrarily claimed. The law is not strong enough at present to deal with such threats.

2. The main clause of the bill, clause 2, is based on section 503 of the Indian Penal Code.

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3. Clause 3 is intended to cover such cases as that of threats which are made to third parties ", and that of written threats posted up on walls.

7th October, 1920.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

No. S. 293.--Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

Reference

Date.

to Government Notification,

Philippine Islands.

Newchwang.

All passengers from Hongkong to produce special certi-

ficate.

7th March, 1918.

No. S. 49.

All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be treated as

Suspected Vessels.

27th May, 1919.

No. S. 86.

Singapore. Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.

Bengal.

19th July, 1918.

24th June, 1918.

No. S. 181.

No. S. 192.

Netherlands India.

Regulations for the prevention of the introduction. of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily pro- hibited: (1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal; (2) rags. (Refuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made, or from bleaching-establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of newspaper, are not considered as rags.)

Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on pro- duction of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul-General at Hongkong.

10th Feb., 1920.

No. S. 38.

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