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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27 AUGUST, 1870.

Servant in his Employ: Provided always that in all Actions or Loss is primâ other Proceedings instituted to recover Com ensation for such Loss,fcie Evidence or Injury, the Fact of such Loss or Injury, shall be deemed primâ of Negligence. fucie" Evidence of Negligence, and no Innkeeper shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Section unless he shall show that he used the utmost Care that could be reasonably expected of him to protect his Guest against such Loss or Injury.

where Goods

IV. An Junkeeper shall not be liable to make good to his Limitation of Guest, any Loss of or Injury to Goods or Property brought to Liability his Inn by such Guest, to a greater Amount than Five hundred not deposited Dollars, unless such Goods or Property shall have been deposited for safe with him for safe Custody, under the Provins next hereafter Custody. contained: Provided always that this Section shall not be deemed Proviso as to 10 limit the Liability of the Innkeeper in any Case where there Default or shall be Proef of any wild Act. Neglect, or Ditalt, or of Fraud Collusion of or Collusion in Connection with such Loss or jy, on the l'art of the Innkeeper himself, or of any Mausgur or other Person entrusted by him with the general Control and Management of

the Inn.

Innkeeper.

V. Every Innkeeper shall be bound to receive from his Guest on Deposit of Demand, for the Purpose of safe Custody, any fools or Property, Property by and to give a Deposit Note stating the Value thereof, subject to the following Conditions, that is to say:-

1. That the Guest shall at the Time of such Deposit declaro

the Value of such Goods or Property.

2. That the Guest shall, if so required by the Innkeeper, provide a Box or other Receptacle for sneh Deposit and fasten and seal the same.

Provided always, that the Innkeeper may refuse to receive for safe Custody, under this Section, Goods or Property of any one Guest, the declared Value of which shall excood Five thou and Dollars, and that he shall in no Case be liable for Loss of or Injury to Goods or Property so deposited by a Guest to an Amount exceed- ing the declared Value thereof.

Guest for safe Custody.

VI. If any Innkeeper shall refuse to receive for safe Custody, Penalty for as before mentioned, any Goods or Property of his Guest, the refusing to declared Value of which shall not exceed Five thousand Dollars, receive

Property of or if any such Guest shall, through any Default of such Inn- Guests for safe keeper, be unable to deposit snel Goods or Property as aforesaid, Custody. such Innkeeper shall not be entitled to the Benefit of this Ordi- nance in respect of such Goods or Property.

conspicuously

VII. Every Innkeeper shall cause at least One Copy of this Notice of Law, Ordinace, printed in plain Type, in English and Chinese, to be &c., to be exhibited in a conspictions Part of the Hall or Entrance to his exitibited. Inn, aud Le shall be entitled to the Beneft of this Ordinance in respect of such Goods or Property only as shall be brought to his Ian while such Copy shall be so exhibited.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th Day of August, 1870.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils,

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIE REGINE.

HENRY WASE WHITTEILD, Major-General, and Lieutenant-Governor.

No. 12 of 1870.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to make Provision for the Enforcement of Rights of Re-entry by the Crown, and for the Granting of Relief against Forfeiture.

[26th August, 1870.]

Title.

HEREAS it is expedient to extend to this Colony the Pro- Premalde.

visions of the Twenty-fifth Section of an Act of the Tamperial Parliament passed in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act to regulate the Office of Queen's Remembrance, and to mand the Practice and Procedure on the Revenue Nida of the Cout of divchsquer,”- nud te muke. Provision for the Euforevarit of Rights of by the Crown, aud for the Granting of Relief agånd. Poefiture": Be it enacted by the Governor of How Long, with the Advien of the Legislative Connell thereof, as follows pe

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