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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27т AUGUST, 1870.

Servant in his Employ: Provided always that in all Actions or Loss is prima other Proceedings instituted to recover Com; ensation for such Loss, facie Evidence or Injury, the Fact of such Lovs or Injury, shall be deemed primâ of Negligence. facie 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 auch Loss or Injury.

where Goods

IV. An Innkeeper 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 love been deposited for safe with him for safe Custody, under the Provins next hereafter Custody. contained: Provided always that this Section sh dll not be deemed Proviso as to to limit the Liability of the Innkeeper in any Case where there Default or shall be Proof of any will Act, Neglect, or D-alt, or of Fraud Collusion of or Collusion in Connection with such Loss or hipery, on the Part of the Innkeeper himself, or of any Manager or other Person entrusted by him with the general Control and Management of

the Inn.

Innkeeper.

V. Every Innkeeper shall bo bound to receive from his Guest on Deposit of Demand, for the Purpose of safe Custody, any Cicels 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 declare

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 such Deposit and fasten and seal the rume.

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 excend 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.

receive

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 excced Five thousand Dollars,

Property of or if any such Guest shall, through any Default of such Inn-Guesis for safe keeper, be unable to deposit auch 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.

exhibited.

VII. Every Innkeeper shall cause at least One Copy of this Notice of Law, Ordinance, 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 conspicuously Inn, aud Le shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Ordinance in respect of such Goods or Property only as shall be brought to his Jan 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 WHITFEILD, Major-General, and Lieutenant-Governor.

No. 12 of 1870.

Au 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.

WI

[26th August, 1870.]

Title.

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

visions of the Twenty-fifth Section of an Act of the Imperia Parliament passed in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Yours of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act to regulate the Office of Queen's Remeiulmincer, and to maond the Practico and Procedure on the Revenue Side of the Chant of Exchequer,”-- and to make Provision for the Enforensent of Rights of ""e-enay by the Crown, and for the Granting of Rolled agänd Forfeiture": Be it practed by the Governor of How long, with the Advien of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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