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1857.

NOVEMBER 28, 1857.]

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rmation of a Fund for the purpose of building, fitting up, and maintaining such Hospital, and enlarging e same from Time to Time as may be required; and all Fees directed to be levied and paid by Section VIII, in case of non-payment, shall be sued for and recovered by the Registrar General, who shall

pay the me into the Colonial Treasury.

furnish the Harbour

in their

Diseased Seamen to

XVII. Every Keeper of a Licensed Boarding House for Seamen shall furnish to the Harbour Keepers of Licensed Master, once in every Week, a List of Seamen then resident in his House, and shall report in such List as Boarding House to the state of Health of cach Seaman so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every Seaman Master with Weekly who may be reported or may be otherwise discovered to be affected with a Venereal Disease, unless Lists of the Seamen then under Medical Treatment, shall be removed by Warrant under the Hand of the Harbour Master to a resident ospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Medical Attendants thereof, discharged as cured, and Houses. shall have obtained from such Medical Attendants a Certificate of his having been so discharged, which Certificate he shall produce and shew to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the Expenses be removed to Hospi which may be incurred in and about the Maintenance and Treatment of any such Seaman in such Hospital, shall be a Debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such Seaman; or, in Case of the Keeper of the Boarding House in which such Seaman shall have resided before his removal to Hospital not having reported, or having made a false Report as to the state of Health of such Seaman, then such Expenses shall be paid by such Boarding House Keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Colonial Surgeon or his Deputy, or the Medical Attendants of the Hospital to which such Seaman may be removed, that the Disease with which he may be affected is of such a Nature as that the Keeper of the Boarding Hause could, with ordinary and reasonable Observation, have ascertained its Existence; and in all Cases sach Expenses shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the Hospital.

XVIII. If any Seaman affected with a Venereal Disease, and reported so to be by the Keeper of Penalty for offering the Boarding House in which such Seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any Hindrance or Obstruc- any obstruction to Re- tion to his Removal to Hospital; or, having been removed to Hospital, shall attempt to leave the same

moval to Hospital, &c. before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his Certificate of Discharge when required by the Harbour Master or his Deputy authorized to demand the same; or being affected with a Venereal Disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the Keeper of the Boarding House in which he may be residing,-then, and in every such Case, such Seaman so offending shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five current Dollars, or to Imprisonment, with or without hard Labour, for any Time not exceeding One Month.

XIX. The Master of any Merchant Ship, before shipping any Seaman, may require that such Seaman Masters of Shipm Jall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon or other Medical Officer who may be appointed for such Purpose before shipping Sea- connection with the Harbour Master's Department, and who is hereby required to attend at stated men may require that Hours in the Forenoon and Afternoon of each Day at the Harbour Master's Office for the Purposes of such they be inspected. 1 or such spection; and the Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer upon such Inspection is to give a Certificate under his Hand as to the State of Health of such Seaman, which Certificate such Seaman is to produce and show to the Master of the Ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every such Certificate there shall be paid the Fee of Fifty Cents, to be paid by the Master or Agent of the Ship in case such Seaman should prove to be in sound Health, and by the Seaman himself or the Boarding House Keeper with whom he shall be residing in case he shall prove to be affected with any Venereal hisease; such Fee to be received by the Harbour Master, and in case of non-payment to be sued for and recovered by him, and paid into the Colonial Treasury for the Purposes of this Ordinance.

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XX. In all Cases where Punishment by Imprisonment shall be inflicted under this Ordinance, such Imprisonment may Imprisonment may be either in Gaol or in' Hospital, and may be either with or without hard Labour as the be either in Gaol or

Hospital. Court shall adjudge.

XXI. In all Cases in which Fines shall be imposed under the Provisions of any Section of this al Officer Ordinance, and the Brothel Keeper on whom such Fine shall be imposed shall be unable to pay or discharge may be recovered, scharged, the same, then the same shall be recovered from the immediate Landlord or Lessor of such House; and Registrar in case such Landlord or Lessor be not known or cannot be ascertained, then from the Crown Lessee of ame shall the Plot of Ground on which such House may be erected or built, provided it be proved to the satisfaction Hospital of the Magistrate, that such Crown Lessee was cognisant of the Purposes for which such House shall have ttempt to been let or occupied. oned with

XXII. No House in which any Trade or Business shall be carried on shall be Registered, or be 2 incurred capable of becoming a Registered Brothel under the Provisions of this Ordinance. Debt due XXIII. No Moneys which shall be raised under the Provisions of this Ordinance by way of any Fee : been an

Time be applied or applicable to any Purposes other than or different from the Specific tshall be Purposes for which the same are to be raised, and to which they are to be applied under the Provisions of

this Ordinance.

e Chief or

shall

at any

No Trade to be carried on in any Brothel.

Moneys raised under this Ordinance to be upline or orde Purposes of the Ordi-

nance.

XXIV. His Excellency in Council is hereby empowered from Time to Time to make such Regula- on convictions and By-Laws as may be deemed necessary for carrying into effect the Provisions of this Ordinance, to ing Three and for the Regulation and Control of Registered Brothels within the aforesaid Districts.

h Case be

Power to Governor make By-Laws and Regulations.

Penalties how to be

XXV. All cases arising under this Ordinance shall be tried and adjudicated by, and all Fines recovered. and Penalties herein mentioned, and all Sums herein declared to be recoverable, shall be sued for and llector the covered before, any Magistrate of Police either singly, or any two or more Justices of the Peace in the Lo demandanner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, entitled, “ An Ordinance to regulate Summary Proceedings

Before Justices of the Peace, and to protect Justices in the execution of their duty.”

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

No. 163.

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this 24th Day of November, 1857.

J. M. D'ALMada e Castro,

for the Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, in consequence of W. H. WHITE, Esquire, having been ordered home, His but to be Excellency The Governor has been pleased, with the concurrence of the proper authorities, to appoint WILLIAM employed: MESURIER, Assistant Commissary General, Acting Auditor General of Hongkong, from the 16th instant, uarterly in

incurred in

I in case of

Reception nises to be he Money; as shall be Payment of lied to the

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By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d November, 1857.

W. T. BRIDGES; Acting Colonial Secretary.