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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27тп JANUARY, 1866.

Ordinance No. 5 of

II. Ordinance No. 5 of 1865 is hereby amended by repealing Section VII thereof, 1865 amended by re- and by renumbering the remaining Sections as though the Section repealed had never

been inserted.

pealing Section 7.

Ordinauce No. 7 of

1865, Section 98 amended.

Ordinance No. 8 of

1865, Section 60 amended.

Section 64 of Ordi-

III. There shall be inserted in Section XCVI of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, after the Word "Strokes," the Words following, that is to say, "which shall in no case exceed Forty."

IV. There shall be inserted in Section LX of Ordinance No. 8 of 1865, after the Word "Strokes," the Words following, that is to say, "which shall in no case exceed Forty."

V. Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 is hereby amended by repealing Section LXIV, and nance No. 4 of 1865 by inserting in lieu thereof the Section following:

repealed, and new Sec- tion inserted in lieu.

Power to Cominis-

sioners to make fore-

"Solitary Confine-

t

"LXIV. Whenever Solitary Confinement may be awarded for ment, and Whipping. 'any indictable Offence under this Ordinance, the Court may direct "the Offender to be kept in Solitary Confinement for any Portion or Portions of his "Imprisonment, or of his Imprisonment with Hard Labour, not exceeding One Month "at any One Time, and not exceeding Three Months in any One Year; and whenever Whipping may be awarded for any indictable Offence under this Ordinance, the "Court may sentence the Offender to be once privately Whipped, and the Number of Strokes, which shall in no case exceed Forty, and the Instrument with which they "shall be inflicted, shall be specified by the Court in the Sentence."

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VI. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed to compile a new Edition going Amendments in of the Ordinances to make therein, and they are hereby required to make therein, the the new Edition of the several Amendments hereinbefore mentioned.

Ordinances.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Comparative Statement of Revenue collected by the Registrar General's Department during the Years 1864 and 1865, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1866.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of REVENUE received at the Registrar General's Office during the Years 1864 and 1865.

1864.

1865.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

Boats.

4,166.70

$ c. 4,185.70

e.

Hawkers

1,246.67

1,778.25

19.00 531.58

Lands not Leased. Cultivated Land

Villages

Squatters

537.83

421.6

116.07

205.49

212.05

0.56

1,439.44

983.20

456.15

Undertakers

60.00

70.00

10.00

Emigrants.

+

109.50

109.50

Brothels.

Hospital. Markets Privies.

6,084.00

5,776.00

308.00

1,497.00

1,787.20

290.20

32,494.50

31,953.50

541.00

210.00

400.00

250.00

Crews

251.50

234.75

Cargo Boats

Ordinance No. 15 of 1860..

16.75

1,241.77

1,111.67

130.10

Chairs

530.00

648.00

118.00

....

Chair Bearers

184.10

231.20

47.10

Horses.

1.00

Carriages.

1.00

Drivers.

10.00

1.00

1.00 10.00

Chinese Gazette...

80.56

80.56

....

TOTAL.

50,161.00

50,043.43

1,462.50

1,580.07

DEDUCT INCREASE.

1,462.50

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NET DECREASE.

$

i17.57