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THE FRIEND

OF CHINA

AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY.

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VOL. III. No. 111.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, MARCH, 2nd, 1844,

PRICE 8 12 per annum.

NOTIFICATIONThe publication of the Hongkong Gazole under the authority of Clovemment, will be discontinued from this date bin all public orders and notifications appearing The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette," with the signatures of duly authorized Functionaries of the Government are sull to be considered as official. Hongkong, March, 23rd 1943.

By order, J, ROBT MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

Tue following Ordinances, passed by His Excellency the Governor in Council, are published for General information.

By order,

RICHARD WOOSNAM.

Government House, Victoria,

Hongkong, 28th February, 1844.

TINE

HONGKONG.

No. 1 of 1844.

Anno sexto et septimo Victoria Reginæ.

Preamble,

Laws of En-

gland prohibitory

of Slavery to bo

in force at Hong

kong.

Liabilities in eurred by avery

one treating any

By His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger Baronet Knight Grand Cross of the most Honorable Milita- ry Order of the Bath Major Gene- ral in the service of the Honorable the East India Company Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its De- pendencies and Superintendent oft he trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China with the advice of the Legis lative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to define the Law relating to slavery in Hongkong, (28th February, 1844.) Whereas it is expedient to define and promulgate the Law respecting slavery in the Colony of Hongkong 1. Be it therefore enacted and de- clared by the Governor of Hong. kong with the advice of the Legisla tive Council thereof that the Laws of England prohibitory, of slavery to- gether with the punishments.

and nalties provided therein shall be in full virtue and operation and shall be duly enforced and inflicted in the said Co- lony save as hereinafter excepted.

pe-

2. And be it enacted that eve-

person as a sly one er using or treat-

on Hongkong

Liabilities

amarred by Foreig

ners coming to

Hongkong with Slavee and at conveying her before Chief or other Magistrate.

Or

to use or treat

any person as a slave in Hong kong shall upon conviction thereof before the Chief Magistrate of Po lice of Hongkong or before such Court of Justice as may hereafter be established in Hongkong be liable to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding two years with or with out hard labour and corporal punish- ment and shall forfeit to Her Ma- jesty her heirs and successors for the public uses of the said Colony of Hongkong such sum not exceed ing five hundred dollars for each of fence and also such other additional sum not exceeding two hundred dol- Jars to be paid to any person giving information of the said Offence as shall be adjudged by the said Chief. Magistrate or Court af resaid.

3. And be it enacted that if any person not being a subject of Her Majesty shall come within the pre- pincts of the Colony of Hongkong bringing with him any person pre viously a slave and shall not forth with on being lawtalks requested of Withm ten days after his armivál as doresaid (wheth

ed or not) convey i Brave beforE Police

Owner of Sla. ve retaining Sia.

vo in his service Bond with Surs ties conditioned for non removal

to enter into a

of Slave.

ported and apprenti

enteringiato. Bond,

from his former owner that Slavery. is prohibited in the Colony of Hong- kong and that he is free to depart whithersoever he pleases and such Magistrato as aforesaid shall take duo care that such liberty is freely exercised.

5. And be it enacted in ca- se of any such previous slave ex- pressing a wish to remain with his former owner that such owner shall together with two approved sure- ties resident householders in Hong- kong aforesaid enter into a bond to Her Majesty in the sum of five hundred dolars conditioned against the removal of such previous slave from the Colony of Hongkong by his said former owner without the said previous slave having been pre- duced before the Chief Magistrate or any other justice of the Peace of the said Colony of Hongkong and examined apart as to his voluntari- ly departing with his said former owner and being informed that by his so doing he will revert to his for- mer state of slavery.

any

Slave to be sip. And be

6. be it enacted in case any sed in case of his hot Such previous slave remaining with Yok til mer owner or by time leave his former owner or former owner not in case such former owner shall be. unable or unwilling to enter into such bond as aforesaid that such previous slave shall be maintained at the public cost until such time as he is enabled to gain his own livelihood and the Chief Magistrate aforesaid is hereby authorized with the appro bation of the Governor in Council to apprentice or otherwise place out such previous elave as

saforesaid with a view to his obtaming a live lihood by his own labour, nos vál Slave found in ser- 7. And be it enacted if any poem hirmg such previous slave as last aforesaid to lay upon former shall be thereafter found in the pos-

vice of former owner

owner.

Liabilities incurred by any person

sing nformation of owner of alares

Inhabiting his house,

session or employment of his former owner that such possession or ein- ployment shall be deemed cie proof of such owned, prima fa- duly repossessed himself of the said previous slave and such owner in default of rebutting such presump- tion shall be liable to the penalties herein affixed to the treating or using any one as a slave in Hongkong.

8. And be it enacted that any person knowingly receiving in his house, any one laving any person previously a slave m his possession or a person used or intended to be used or claimed as "such and not viving immediate information thereof to the Chief Magistrate of Hongkong or the nearest, Justice of the Peace shall upon convicuon thereof before the Chef Magistrate or such, Court at Hongkong as herein aforesaid be liable to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding three months. with or without hard labour and corporal punishment and shall forfeit such sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence and also such sum not exceeding bil Bard to the person riving of the same as chail be mariner

Haile for interpre. ting this and olher orattan cas.

10. And be it enacted that when- ever this or any other ordinance in describing or referring to any offence or the subject matter on, or with res- pect to which it shall be committed or the offender or the party affected or intended to be affected by the of fence, hath used or shall use words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, yet the Ordi- nance shall be understood to include several matters as well as one mat- ler and several persons as well as one person and females as well as males and bodies corporate as well as individuals unless it be otherwise Specially provided or there be some- thing in the subject or context re- pugnant to such construction.

HENRY POTTINGER.

Governor. &c.

Passed the Legislative Council

the 28th day of February 1844.

RICHARD BURGASS.

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

HONGKONG.

No. 2 of 1844.

Anno sexto et septimo Victoriæ Regine:

to be published

save in accordan-

As Ordinance by His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger Baronet knight Grand Cross of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath Major General in the service of the Hono- rable the East India Company Go- vernor and Commander in Chief

Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong- kong.

An Ordinance to regulate the prin- ting of books and papers and the keeping of printing presses within the Colony of Hongkong. (28th Fe

bruary, 1844.)

Be it enacted that insu

ce with the Rules ing no printed Periodical work what- bereid after men ever containing public news or com-

Printer and Pa. blisher to make declar

ments on public news shall he pu blished within the Colony of Hong kong except in conformity with the Rules hereinafter laid down.

1. The Printer and the Fublisher of every such Periodical work shall appear before the Chief Magistrate of Police at Hongkong and shall make and subscribe in duplicate the following declaration “ I. B. B. de- clare that I am the Printer (or Pu- and Publisher) of

the Periodical work intitled

and printed (or published or printed and pu- blished at Hongkong" and the last blank in this form of declara. tion shall be filled up with a true and precise account of the premises where the printing or publication is conducted

2. As often as the place of prin- ung or

ion is changed a new

declar

be necessary.

Printer or the

made such shall leave new

ter or Publi- Bald Colony

hat

hoe