THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
V SERIES.
VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 157.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 34th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby pen, 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”
..., as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMations, NotificaTIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. 9 of 1858.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary hief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Lil of Hongkong.
The Markets Ordinance, 1858.
[31st May, 1858.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the dative Council thereof, as follows:
dinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1854.
Governor in Council
11. All Markets presently established within the District of Victoria shall be subject to this Ordi- re: but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council from time to time to empowered to estab
lisli and close Markets, the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new Market or Markets and to make Regula- a the said District, and to make such Bye-Laws for the letting of Houses, Shops, Stalls, or Standings tious and Bye-Laws.
, in any of the said Markets, hereinbefore specified, and the Durations and Conditions of such - gs, and the Rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said Markets, tepression or prevention of Disorder therein, and the protection of the Traffic thereof, as to His Ex- y in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such Bye-Laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the Long Government Gazelle, and, for the space of Seven consecutive Days, posted in all existing
Lets.
No Market to be
III. No new Market shall be deemed to be established until after Notification made by His said deemed established til. ellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so notified in the Gazettel ablished and open for Public Use.
Prohibition of other
IV. From the passing of this Ordinance, no Market shall be opened or kept open except under the Markets.
isions of this Ordinance; and every Market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as said shall, together with the Building or Buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be
, be deemed a Common Nuisance.
No Buildings shall be erected, continued, or maintained, in any Market, save only Houses with Buildings in Markets. Stalls, Standings, Houses for Market Porters, and Lan or Entrepots; and the Surveyor General is by empowered and required to see to the execution of all Laws for the time being in force, with pect to Buildings, so far as the same are applicable to the Buildings enumerated in the salvo lastly herein- te contained; and all the said Buildings shall be constructed of Stone or Brick, and such of them as are
or Stalls shall be fitted with Stone or Wooden Dressers or Counters, proper for the purposes of and no Stall shall cover a larger surface than Seven lineal Feet.
VI. Each House and each Stall in every Market shall be numbered, and a Register of the same by its Number shall be kept in the Office of the Surveyor General, which Register shall also contain an y of the name of the actual Lessee or Tenant of the same, the Premium therefor, the Rent thereof, the Term of Lease, and such Entry shall be prima facie evidence of the facts thereby appearing.
Numbering Houses and Stalls, and Regis- tering the same.
Certain marketable
VII. Licensed Hawkers may lawfully hawk, for sale, any Green Vegetables, Fruit, Bean Curds, Articles may be sold
Confectionary, and Soup; and Boatmen may lawfully sell any Fresh Fish from their Boats or out of Market. to the Crews or Occupants of other Boats or, Vessels, at a distance from the Shore of at least Three Feet; neither shall this Ordinance extend to prohibit bona fide Public Sales by licensed Auc- or Sales (not being Sales of Raw Butcher's Meat) in Shops or Stores not kept by Asiatics, nor ale of Rice, nor to prevent any Person from selling on his own Premises any Bread, Milk, Congee, tionary or Soup, or Salt Fish by Hawkers as aforesaid, not being less at any one time than the t of One Picul, nor (if a Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Boarding, Eating, or Coffee House, or
p) from supplying any cooked Provisions to a Customer.
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