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Juy-uile Offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.
Chinese Money- Changers to be Licensed.
Penalty on an Un-
as Money Changer.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29ru JULY, 1866.
V. Any Person who, subsequently to the passing of this Ordinance, shall be charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider, abettor, counseller, or procurer, in the commission of any offence which now is or hereafter may be by law deered or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the emission or atte apommission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the Justice of the Peace bere whom he or she shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of Sixteen Years, shail on conviction thereof, be liable to be Imprisoned with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Three Months, or in the discretion of such Justice, shall forfeit and pay such Sum, not exceeding Twenty Dollars, as the said Justice shall adjudge, and if a male, shall be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to, such Imprisonment or Fine, provided that the number of strokes inflicted shall not exceed Twenty and the instrument used shall be a Rattan.
day of
VI. From and after the
it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a Money-Changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a License to do so from the Registrar General, which License shall remain in force for One Year, and for which the Sum of Ten Dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
VII. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a Money-Changer licensed Person acting in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a License, or after the expira- tion of the same, or who shall violate any of the conditions contained in the said License shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and not less than Ten Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labor for any term not exceeding Three Months. VIII. From and after the passing of this Ordinance the keeping of l'igs or of other the public health to animals likely to be injurious to the public health, within the city of Victoria is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a Pig or other such animal in the said City of Victoria, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Five Dollars, and in default of payment shall be Imprisoned for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days, and the said Pig or other animal shall also be forfeited.
No Pigs or other Anima's injurious to
be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and un- wholesome Food or
seized; Penalty on Persons selling the
IX. Any person who shali expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop in the Liquor, &c, may be Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to be Imprisoned with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months; and in case the Person convicted shall be a licensed Spirit Dealer, or Boarding house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his license.
same.
Warrants to search Houses and Shops
may be granted in certain cases.
Power to the
X. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any Constable or credible person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food, is exposed, or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawful for such Justice in his discretion, to grant a Warrant to any Constable to enter and search any such house or shop by day, and such Constable may, if necessary, break open the dours of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the Owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxiou adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed. but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper Owner. And in case of s conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition to any Fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution the said Warrant.
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XI. It shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor to appoint a duly qualified Guvernor to appoint Medical Practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform *
duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct who shall receive such annual Salary as may be voted.
a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded Lodging Houses.
XII. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two resider: Medical Practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupi by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome s
as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a Sum
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