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Setting Fire to Crops, &c.
Setting Fire to Stacks, &c.
Attempting to set Fire to Crops, &c.
Destroying Trees,
more than $5, grow- ing in a Pleasure Ground, &c.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24тH JUNE, 1865.
Injuries to Crops, Trecs, and vegetable Productions:-
15. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Field or Piece or Crop of Grass, Rice, Grain, or Pulse or of any cultivated vegetable Produce, whether standing or cut down, or to any Part of any Wood, Coppice, or Plantation of Trees or to any Heath, Gorse, Furze, or Fern, wheresoever the same may be growing, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for auy Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
16. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Heap or Stack of Corn, Rice, Grain, Pulse, Tares, Hay, Straw, or of any cultivated vegetable Produce, or to any Heap or Stack of Coals, or Wood, or to any other Substance used for Fuel shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life, or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
17. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously by any overt Act attempt to set fire to any such Matter or Thing as in either of the last Two preceding Sections mentioned, under such Circumstances that if the same were thereby set fire to the Offender would be, under either of such Sections, guilty of Felony, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
18. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, bark, root up, or &c., to the Valve of otherwise destroy or damage the whole or any Part of any Tree, Sapling, or Shrub, or any Underwood growing in any Pleasure Ground, Garden, Orchard, or Avenue, or in any Ground adjoining or belonging to any Dwelling House, (in case the Amount of the Injury done shall exceed the Sum of Five Dollars,) shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years,-or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceed ing Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
Destroying Trees to
$25, growing else-
sure Ground, &c.
19. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, bark, root up, or the Value of more than otherwise destroy or darnage the whole or any Part of any Tree, Sapling, or Shrub, or where than in a Plea- any Underwood, growing elsewhere than in any Pleasure Ground, Garden, Orchard, or Avenue, or in any Ground adjoining or belonging to any Dwelling House, (in cas: the Amount of Injury done shall exceed the Sum of Twenty-five Dollars,) shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years,--cr to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with e without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.
Destroying Trees, &c., wheresoever growing to the Amount of 24 Cents.
Second Offence.
Third Offence.
up,
20. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, bark, root otherwise destroy or damage the whole or any Part of any Tree, Sapling, or Shrub. any Underwood, wheresoever the same may be growing, the Injury done being to th Amount of Twenty-four Cents at the least, shall, on Conviction thereof before a Pelle Magistrate, at the Discretion of the Magistrate, either be committed to the Comm Gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour for ⠀ Term not exceeding Three Months, or else shall forfeit and pay, over and above th Amount of the Injury done, such Sum of Moncy not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars. - to the Magistrate shall seem meet; and whosoever, having been convicted of any s Offence, either against this or any former Enactment in Force in this Colony, afterwards commit any of the said Offences in this Section before mentioned, and el be convicted thereof in like Manner, shall for such Second Offence be committed to Common Gaol, there to be kept to Hard Labour for such Term, not exceeding Months, as the convicting Magistrate shall think fit; and whosoever, having been to convicted of any such Öffence (whether both or either of such Convictions shall h taken place before or after the passing of this Ordinance,) shall afterwards cominit »
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