711479-1867-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION — Page 12

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1867.

Penalties for Harboring.

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rosort to any House

LIX. If any Person being the Occupier of any House, Room or Place or being Penalty for permitting a Manager or Assistant in the management thereof having reasonable cause to believe Diseased Prostitute to any woman to be a common Prostitute and to be affected with a Contagious Disease for Prostitution. induces or suffers her to resort to or be in that House, Room or Place for the purpose of Prostitution he shall be guilty of an Offence against this Ordinance and on summary Conviction thereof before the Registrar General shall be liable to a penalty not ex- ceeding $100 or at the discretion of the Registrar General to be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Six Months with or without Hard Labor.

Seamen and Boarding Houses for Seamen.

Boarding Houses for

Seamen resident

Health, Diseased

to a Hospital.

LX. Every Keeper of a Licensed Boarding House for Seamen shall furnish Keepers of Licensed to the Harbor Master, once in every Week, a List of Seamen then resident in his House, seamen to furnish and shall report in such List as to the state of Health of each Seaman so far as he may Harbor Master with be able to ascertain the same; and every Seaman who may be reported or may be Weekly Lists ont in otherwise discovered to be affected with a. Contagious Disease, shall be removed by their Houses, and Warrant under the Hand of the Harbor Master to a Hospital, where he shall be report their state of kept until he be, by the Medical Attendants thereof, discharged as cured, and shall Seamen to be removed have obtained from such Medical Attendants a Certificate of his having been so discharged which Certificate he shall produce and shew to the Harbor Master when required so to do; and the Expenses which may be incurred in and about the Main- tenance and Treatment of any such Seaman in such Hospital, shall be a Debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such Seaman; or, in Case of the Keeper of the Boarding House in which such Seaman shall have resided before his reinoval to Hospital not having reported, or having made a false Report as to the state of Health of such Seaman, then such Expenses shall be paid by such Boarding House Keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Colonial Surgeon or his Deputy, or the Medical Attendants of the Hospital to which such Seaman may be removed, that the Disease with which he may be affected is of such a Nature as that the Keeper of the Boarding House could, with ordinary and reasonable Observation, have ascertained its Existence; and in all Cases such Expenses shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recovered by the Harbor Master on behalf of the Hospital.

LXI. If any Seaman affected with a Contagious Disease, and reported so to be Penalty for offering by the Keeper of the Boarding House in which such Seaman may be residing, shall any Obstruction to

removal to Hospital. refuse or offer any Hindrance or Obstruction to his Removal to Hospital; or, having been removed to Hospital, shall attempt to leave the same before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his Certificate of Discharge when required by the Harbor Master or his Deputy authorized to demand the same; or being affected with a Contagious Disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the Keeper of the Boarding House in which he may be residing, then, and in every such Case, such Seaman so offending shall be liable to be brought before the Harbor Master and subjected to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Current Dollars, or to Im- prisonment, with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding One Month.

require them to

LXII. The Master of any Merchant Ship, before shipping any Seaman, may Masters of Ships before require that such Seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon by notice in shipping Seamen may writing to that effect addressed to the Harbor Master or a Visiting Surgeon appointed undergo Medical in pursuance of this Ordinance and the Colonial Surgeon or such Visiting Surgeon inspection. upon such Inspection is to give a Certificate under his Hand as to the State of Health of such Seaman, which Certificate such Seaman is to produce and show to the Master of the Ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every such Certificate there shall be paid the Fee of Fifty Cents, to be paid by the Master or Agent of the Ship in case such Seaman should prove to be in sound Health, and by the Seaman himself or the Boarding House Keeper with whom he shall be residing in case he shall prove to be affected with any Contagious Disease; such Fee to be received by the Harbor Master, and in case of non-payment to be sued for and recovered by him, and paid into the Colonial Treasury for the Purposes of this Ordinance.

Expenses of Execution of Ordinance.

LXIII. All Fines imposed and levied for Offences against this Ordinance and all Fines and Fees levied Fees and payments collected under the Provisions thereof shall be appropriated to the and collected to form formation of a General Fund for the purposes of this Ordinance.

a General Fund.