Brothels, with names of Keepers, &c.
Brothels declared to
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[NOVEMBER 28, 1857.
Registrar General to V. The Registrar General shall keep a Register of all Brothels, and shall enter in such Register keep a Register of the names of the Keeper of each of such Brothels, and also of the immediate Landlord or Lessor thereof, also of the Crown Lessee or Tenant of the Plot of Ground on which the same may be 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 be such by the Regis- Women reside, or which they frequent for the purposes of Prostitution, the Registrar General shall forth. with declare such House to be à Brothel, and shall give notice to the immediate Landlord or Lessor thereof, or if such immediate Landlord or Lessor cannot be found or ascertained, then to the Crown Lessee 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 Second 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 the Chief of Assistant Magistrate, or to any two Justices of the Peace sitting for either of such Magistrates, who are hereby empowered to adjudicate on such Appeals, and whose decision thereon shall be final.
trar General.
Appeal.
Registered Brothels to be Visited by cor
tain Officers.
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 Time appointed under the Provisions of this Ordinance; and the Registrar General and such several Officers as aforesaid 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 Keepers of Brothels Brothels, and inspect and examine each one of the Inmates therein at least once in every Ten days.
VIII. Every Keeper, Mistress, or Manager of a Registered Brothel, shall once in every Week General with Weekly furnish the Registrar General with a true Report of the Condition of Health of each and every of the Lists of Inmates, c. Inmates of the same.
Lists of Inmates, &c., to be kept suspended in each Brothel.
to furnish the Registrar
IX. In every Registered Brothel there shall be kept suspended, in some public Place, a Board, contain- ing, in the English and Chinese Languages, a List of the Names and Ages of the Inmates then resident in 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 or Hospital under the Provisions of this Ordinance.
Penalty for offering X. Any Brothel Keeper or Prostitute who shall offer any Obstacle to, or refuse to admit such any obstacle to Visits Registrar General, Superintendent, or Inspector of Police, for the purpose of making such Inspection as of proper Officers, &c. 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 Inmates, 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.
Women
affected with any
Venereal Disease to bo removed to Hospital.
XI. Every Prostitute, or Inmate of a Registered Brothel, who shall be at any Time declared by the Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid to be affected with any Venereal Disease, shall be, by Order of the Registrar General given under his Hand, removed to such Hospital as shall be bullt 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 General.
moved.
Prostitutes infecting XII. If any Prostitute labouring under a Venereal Disease shall, to the satisfaction of the Chief or healthy Persons liable Assistant Magistrate, be proved to have infected any Person with such Disease, such Prostitute, on convic- to Punishment.
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 ■ Brothel to pay a Monthly Suin.
Formation of a general
XIII. Every Keeper of a Registered Brothel shall pay to the Registrar General or his Collector the Sum of Four current Dollars per Mensem, which the Registrar General is hereby empowered to demand and collect, and all such Sums are to be paid by the Registrar General into the Colonial Treasury. Moneys collected by XIV. All Monies collected under or by virtue of Sections XIII and XIX are to be appropriated to way of Fees under this the formation of a general Fund for the Purposes of this Ordinance, out of which a Monthly Sum (to be Ordinance to go to the fixed by His Excellency in Council) is to be paid to the Colonial Surgeon, or to such other Medical Fund for the Purposes Officer as may be from Time to Time appointed for the Purposes of this Ordinance, under the Provisions of the Ordinance. of Section VII, as his Remuneration for performing the Duties required or imposed by this Ordinance; Pay of the Colonial and the said Colonial Surgeon, or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid, is hereby empowered (with the Surgeon or other Me- sanction of His Excellency the Governor) to nominate or appoint a Deputy or Assistant, being a Person dical Officer appointed under this Ordinance, properly qualified to act for him, in case he shall be at any "Time incapacitated or unable to perform such
Duties, or any Portion of them. Keepers of Brothels XV. Every Keeper of a Registered Brothel shall be allowed, upon giving Notice thereof to the may employ Constables Superintendent of Police, and obtaining his Authority, to employ a Constable for the Protection of, and the specially for their Pro- Preservation of Order in, such Brothel, such Constables to be under the Control of, and responsible to, and to Such Constables to be paid by, the Superintendent of Police, and to wear a Uniform to be chosen for the Purpose, but to be be under the Control, solely employed about the Protection of the Brothel by the Keeper of which each of them is employed; &c., of the Superiu- and every Keeper of a Brothel so employing such Special Constable as aforesaid shall pay quarterly in tendent of Police. advance to the Superintendent of Police, a Sum sufficient to cover the Expenses which may be incurred in payment of the Wages of and providing the Uniform for such Constable, and such Sum shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recovered by the Superintendent of Police.
tection, &c.
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A Hospital for
XVI. A Hospital shall be built, or Premises in the first instance hired, exclusively for the Reception Women to be built. Provisions for renting and Treatment of Women affected with Venereal Diseases, the cost of renting such Premises to be suitable Premises in defrayed out of the Fund to be raised under Sections XIII and XIX, and the Remainder of the Moneys the meantime until which shall from Time to Time be collected under the said Sections, over and above such Sunis as shall be such Hospital shall be applied in Payment of the Colonial Surgeon, or such other Medical Officer as aforesaid, and in Payment of the Expenses of renting and maintaining such Premises as aforesaid, shall go and be applied to the
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