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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1857. VOL. III. No. 124.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby pren, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

*:3, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and Public Papers, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Draft Ordinance "for Checking the spread of Venereal Diseases,” read a Third Time at a Meeting the Legislative Council held this Day, is published for general information.

By Order,

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

for the Clerk of Councils.

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th November, 1857.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, IL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the any of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative uncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Checking the spread of Venereal Diseases.

Г November, 1857.] Whereas it is expedient to make provision for checking the spread of Venereal Diseases within this Cony; Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with

e Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

Title.

Preamble.

1. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance, the following Words or Phrases shall have the respective Definition of Terins Meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say—

*Prostitute" shall mean any Woman who shall live or reside in a Registered or a Declared Brothel :

Declared Brothel” shall mean any House in which Women live or reside, or which they frequent, for the purposes of Prostitution, and which shall in any Judicial Proceedings under this Ordinance be sworn or deposed to be such by any Two Witnesses; or which shall be declared to be such, by the Registrar General.

"Registered Brothel" shall mean any House in which Women live or are kept for the Purposes of Prostitution, and which shall be certified to be such in Writing by the Registrar General, and which shall be entered and numbered on a List or Register of such Houses to be kept by the Registrar General.

Penalties.

II. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no Person shall keep a Brothel within the Colony All Brothels to be Hongkong, unless the same be Registered, nor unless the same be within one or other of the following Registered, and to be within certain · Dis- stricts or Portions of Districts, namely,-Ha-wan, from Spring Gardens, Eastward,-Sei-ing-poon, from

tricts. tion of Hollywood Road and Queen's Road West, Westward, and Tai-ping-shan, except such of such Districts or Portions of Districts as face the Queen's Road; and if any Person shall be con- red of Keeping a Brothel outside of such Districts as aforesaid, or an Unregistered Brothel within the se, such Person shall, for the First Offence, be sentenced to pay a Fine not exceeding One Hundred rent Dollars, or to Imprisonment, with or without hard Labour, for a Term not exceeding Three ths, and for the Second Offence to pay a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred current Dollars, or to prisonment, with or without hard Labour, for a Term not exceeding Six Months, and for the Third nce to pay a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred current Dollars, or to Imprisonment for a Term not ceding Twelve Months: Provided always, that it may be lawful for the Magistrate before whom such ender shall be brought to punish such Offender both by Fine and Imprisonment, or by one or other of chmodes according to his discretion; and nothing herein contained shall be taken to bar any Person ceeded against as Nui-

indicting any Brothel whatsoever as a Nuisance.

Brothels may be pro-

Bances.