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alsa from time to time cause to be provided, and put, and affixed upon the said Irons and Posts, such sher of Lamps, and of such Sizes and Sorts respectively, as shall be found requisite for the Lighting aid Streets, Roads, Ways, and Thoroughfares respectively. And it shall be the duty of the Super- nt of Police to light and to keep lighted the said Lamps with Oil for any number of hours in every -four hours, as the said Surveyor General shall from time to time direct.
Laws relating to
extended to Lamps,
1. The Laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away, or stealing of Fixtures and Chattels tively, shall be interpreted to apply to the removing, taking, carrying away, or stealing of the said Irons, Removal or Felony of Lamps, and Oil respectively, by any persons whomsoever; and the Property of and in all such articles Fixtures and Chattels, be deemed to be vested in the Surveyor-General for all the purposes of any Action, Suit, or Information ht or preferred against any person for or in respect of the same, or for or in respect of any Trespass, v. Misdemeanor, or Felony done or committed in respect of any of the said articles.
IV. If any person shall wilfully extinguish the Light of any such Lamp, or wilfully injure, displace, or
Irons, &c.
Wilful Damage, how
e any such Lamp or any other of the said articles, every such offender shall, upon conviction thereof punishable. any Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay for every such Offence a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars less than One Dollar, and shall further forfeit and pay the full amount of the Damage by him so done of resaid, and all incidental Costs and Expenses.
fenders without War- rant.
V. It shall be lawful for any person witnessing the commission of an Offence against Section Three of Apprehension of Of- . Ordinance, to seize the said Offender, and to deliver him to any Constable, or to the said Justice of the te: and no Warrant shall be in any case necessary to justify the Apprehension of any such Offender as esaid.
Carelessness or Ac-
VI. When any Damage or Injury shall have been occasioned unto any such articles by any person crwise than wilfully, and such person shall not have made satisfaction for the same, it shall be the duty of cidental Damage.
Justice of the Peace, upon Complaint thereof made, to order and compel the said person to make full
ction for the amount of such Damage or Injury, together with all incidental Costs and Expenses.
VII. All Proceedings before a Justice of the Peace under this Ordinance, except as provided by Summary procedure tion Four shall be had, and the payment of all pecuniary Penalties, Costs, and Damages under the same before Justices.
st be enforced, in like manner as in other cases of or belonging to the summary jurisdiction of Justices
law provided.
VIII. All Monies recovered or received under this Ordinance shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury. Disposal of Monies.
JOHN BOWRING.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 12th Day of June, 1856.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
:
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIE REGINA.
No. 12 of 1856.
BY His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the any of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary 3 Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
La Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong•
[12th June, 1856.]
Whereas the increase of Population and Buildings in the City of Victoria has made it necessary to ide other arrangements for the Interment of the Dead, and whereas there exist certain Nuisances which e Laws hitherto in force have failed effectually to prevent: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His ellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner Lowing, that is to say :---
Preamble.
Interpretation of
1. For the construction as well of this Ordinance as of Ordinance No. 14 of 1845, the Ordinance No. 2 1854, the Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, and the Ordinance No, 11 of 1856, the following Rules of Construction terms. *l be observed in addition to whatsoever other Rules are by the said Ordinances respectively provided, that is to say
"Public Officer" or
The expressions "Public Officer" or "Public Department" shall extend to and include His Excel- ancy the Governor and every Officer or Department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, "Department." *ther under immediate control of His Excellency or not.
The expression "Lawful Authority" shall extend to and denote any Permission which may be law-*« Lawful Authority.” fly given by a Public Officer or Department or by a Private Person.
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Where no specific Description is given of the Ownership of any Property, the word "Property" shall
e taken to apply to all such Property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a Public
partment, or by a Private Person.
II. It shall be lawful for His Excellency in Executive Council from time to time to select and appoint,
"Property."
The Governor in
1 by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette to notify, sufficient and proper Places to be the Executive Council to appoint Sites for Chi-
es of, and to be used as, Cemeteries or Places of Burial for the Chinese; and from time to time to alter, vary, nese Cemeteries, &c.
and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner; and in such Cemeteries or Faces it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the Provisions of the Notifications actually in force,
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berry their Dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a Grave of less than Five Feet
4th from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the Corpse or Coffin therein depo-
4, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Five
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III. His said Excellency in Executive Council is authorized from time to time to notify, by advertise- Power to close Chi-
t in the Hongkong Government Gazette, that any Chinese Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, from a time in nese Cemeteries.
Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever after the
* of the said specified time shall bury any Corpse in the said Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, for
such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than Five.
IV. Whosoever shall bury any Corpse or Coffin in any Ground not being a Cemetery or Burial Ground Penalties on Burials horised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by Section Three of this elsewhere than in Ce
meteries, &c. *ance) for every such his offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less
Da Five.
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