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The Hongkong Government Güzette. [.502[NOVEMBER 14/1837.

Upon the third Con- III. Upon the occasion of any Person being for the Third Time; convicted of such Offence as j, viction for keeping aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom such Conviction shall take place, by! Warra Provision contrary is under his Hand, to remove all the Inmates of the House wherein such Offender shall have dwelt or residus, Ordinance, Magistrate and to close up such House, and forbid the same to be reinhabited, unless he shall be satisfied that the same may shut the will be occupied in a proper and legal manner, and not as a Brothel within the meaning of this Ordinance, House in which the if situated outside of the aforesaid Districts, or, either as a Registered Brothel, or in any other proper and same is kept.

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legal manner, if within the said Districts or any of them; and that every Person reinhabiting such House without a License or l'ermission under the Hand of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, shall be liable to a Penalty of not more than Five Hundred current Dollars, or to Imprisonment for a l'erminot exceeding Twelve Months.

IV. The averment of Two Witnesses made on Oath or by Affirmation, within the meaning of Ordinance a House is a Brothel. No. 7 of 1857, that any House is occupied as a Brothel, may be received as sufficient Evidence of such Fact; and any Person who shall appear, act, or behave himself or herself as Master or Mistress, or as the Person having the Care or Management of any Brothel, shall be deemed and token to be the Keeper thereof, and shall be liable to be punished as such, notwithstanding he or she shall not, in fact, be the real Owner or Keeper thereof.

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V. The Registrar General shall keep a Register of all Brothels, and shall enter: in such Register the names of the Keeper of each of such Brothels, and also of the immediate Landlord for Lester thereof, also of the Crown Lessee or Tenant of the Plot of Ground on which the same may the standing or built, and shall keep it corrected from Time to Time, according as such Keeper, immediate Landlord or Lessor, or Crown Lessee or Tenant, respectively, may change, and according as any such House, shall cease at any Time to be occupied as a Brothel; and shall furnish, the Colonial Secretary with a Copy of such Register, and shall inform him from Time to Time of such Corrections as may from Time to Time be made in such Register as aforesaid.

VI. Whenever any House shall be, in the Opinion of the Registrar General, a House in which

they frequent for the purposes of Prostitution, the Registrar General shall forth

Brothels declared to be such by the Regis Women reside, trar General.

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Registered Brothels to be visited by cer tain Officers.

Keepers of Brothels

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with declares use to be a Brothel,,,and shall give notice to the immediaté Landlord or Lessor |

thereof, or if such immediate Landlord or Lessor cannot be found or ascertained, then to the Crown Lessce of the Plot of Ground on which the same be built, that such House has been declared by him to be a Brothel, and as such, comes within the Provisions of the Sepond and Third Sections of this Ordinance; and in case such immediate Landlord or Crown Lessee or Tenant shall dispute such Declaration of the Registrar General, then the Party so disputing such; Declaration shall have an Appeal to this:Chief or Assistant Magistrate, or to any two Justices of the Peace sitting for either of buch: Magistratesi who are hereby empowered to adjudicate on such Appeals, and whose decision thereon shall be final. od Unde

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VII. Brothels registered under the Provisions of Section V of this Ordinance, shall be liable to be visited by the Registrar General, and by the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Inspectors of Police, and by the Colonial Surgeon or other Medical Officer to be from, Time to Timé, appointëd under the Provisions of this Ordinance; and the Registrar General and such, several Officersi as aforesani are hereby empowered to visit and inspect the Condition of such Brothels; and the Colonial Surgeon: or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid is hereby empowered and required to visit; each one of such Registered Brothels, and inspect and examine each one of the Inmates therein at least once in every Ten dayssun

VIII. Every Keeper, Mistress, or Manager of a Registered Brothel, shall once in every! Week to furnish the Registrar furnish the Registrar General with a true Report of the Conditions of Health of each and every of the General with Weekly Lists of Inmates, &c. Inmates of the same.

an od vou segunsë dove doide of ezmolt aqinroll ads Lista of Inmates, &c., IX. In every Registered Brothel ther eshall be kept suspended, in some public Place, a Board, contain to be kept suspended ing, in the English and Chinese Languages, a List of the Names and¡ Ages of the Inmates then resident in in each Brothel o the House, and such List shall be altered from Time to Time according as any Inmate may be absent there. from, either by reason of leaving such House altogether, or of being removed therefrom either to Gaol og Hospital under the Provisions of this Ordinance.--en

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X. Any Brothel Keeper or Prostitute, who shall offer any Obstacle to, or refuse to admit such any obstacle to Visita of proper Officers, &c. Registrar General, Superintendent, or Inspector of Police, for the purpose of making such Inspection as aforesaid, or shall refuse to submit to such Inspection or Examination by the Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid, or shall furnish a wilfully false Report of the Condition of Health of the Inmates as is herein required, or shall not keep suspended such. List of such. Immates, and keep the same altered or corrected from Time to Time as is herein required, as the Case may be, shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty of not more than One Hundred current Dollars, or may be imprisoned with or without hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Months la

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Every Prostitute, or Inmate of a Registered Brothel, who shall be at any Time declared by the Disease to be removed Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid to be affected with any Venereal Disease, to Hospital.

shall be, by Order of the Registrar General given under his Hand, removed to such Hospital as shall be built or set apart for Women affected with Venereal Diseases, under the provisions of this Ordinance, and such Prostitute shall be kept under the control of the Medical Officer of such Hospital, and (shall not leave or attempt to leave the same until properly discharged as cured by such Medical Officer; and on every occasion of discharging any such Prostitute from the said Hospital as cured, the Medical Officer so discharging such Prostitute shall give her a Certificate under his Hand of having been so discharged, which Certificate, should such Prostitute return to a Brothel, is to be produced and shewn to the Registrar General, or to the Superintendent or Inspectors of Police, whensoever the Production of the same shall be by him or them demanded; and any Prostitute who shall during her Continuance in: such Hospital refuse to submit to or obey the Directions of the Medical Officer thereof, or shall leave or attempt to Expenses of any leave the same until she be properly discharged as cured as aforesaid, shall be liable to be imprisoned with Woman while in Hos- or without hard Labour for any time not exceeding Three Months; and the Expenses which may be, incurred pital, to be paid by the in, and about the Maintenance and Treatment of any such Prostitute in such Hospital shall be a Debt due Keeper of the Brothel whence such Woman to the Crown, and shall be paid by the Keeper of the Brothel of which such Prostitute shall have been an shall have been re. Inmate, or from which she shall have been so removed, and the same in case of non-payment shall be

sued for and recovered by the Registrar Generál.

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Prostitutes infecting healthy Persons liable to Punishment.

XII. If any Prostitute labouring under a Venereal Disease shall. to the satisfaction of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, be proved to have infected any Person with such Disease, such Prostitute, on convic- tion thereof, shall be punished by Imprisonment either in Gaol or Hospital for a Term not exceeding Three Months, and the Keeper of the Brothel in which such Prostitute shall be found shall in every such Case be fined a Penalty not exceeding Two Hundred current Dollars. ¦ ¦

Every Keeper of a Brothel

XIII. Every Keeper of a Registered Brothel shall pay to the Registrar General or his Collector the to pay a Monthly Sum.

Sum of Four current Dollars per Mensem, which the Registrar General is hereby empowered to demand Moneys collected by and collect, and all such, Sums are to be paid by the Registrar General into the Colonial Treasury. way of Fees under this XIV. All Monies collected under or by virtue of Sections XIII and XIX are to be appropriated to Ordinance to go to the the formation of a general Fund for the Purposes of this Ordinance, out of which a Monthly Sum (to be Formation of a general fixed by His Excellency in Council), is to be paid to the Colonial Surgeon, or to such other Medical of the Ordinance. Officer as may be from Time to Time appointed for the Purposes of this Ordinance, under the Provisions

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