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ORDINANCES Nos. 12 AND 13 OF 1844.
Police Force Regulation.
Chinese Peace Officers Regulation.
Exemption from serving on Juries.
Penalty on public harbouring policemen.
Penalty on persons obstructing or refusing to assist policemen in the execution of their duty.
shall appear subscribed thereto, and that such person is reputed to be, and acts as a Magistrate for the Colony of Hongkong, and that the act or acts complained of were done in obedience to such warrant, the jury or Court, who shall try the said issue, shall find a verdict for the defendant, who shall also recover double his costs of suit.
15. And be it enacted, that the Chief, marine, and assistant Magistrates, the Superintendent, and constables of Police, and the clerks, inferior officers, and other officers, to be appointed under this Ordinance, so long as they shall continue to hold the said offices, or appointments respectively, shall be and are, and each of them is hereby exempted from serving on all juries, or inquests whatsoever.
18. And be it enacted, that if any victualler, or keeper of any house, shop, room, or other place, for the sale of any liquors, whether spirituous or otherwise, shall knowingly harbour or entertain any man belonging to the said Police Force, or permit such man to abide, or remain in his house, shop, room, or other place, during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty, every such victualler, or keeper as aforesaid, being convicted thereof, before any one Justice of the Peace, shall for every such offence forfeit, and pay such sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner, as the said Justice shall think meet.
17. And be it enacted, that if any person shall assault, or resist any person belonging to the said Police Force, in execution of his duty, or shall aid, or incite any person, so to assault, or resist, or shall refuse to assist him therein, when called upon so to do, every such offender, being thereof convicted before any one Justice of the Peace, shall, for every such offence, forfeit, and pay such sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner, as the said Justice at his discretion may adjudge.
[So much as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or superintendence of or control over the Police Force established by the ordinance other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his magisterial capacity exercise, repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1857. All repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1862.]
Title [See Ord. No. 3 of 1863.]
Preamble.
No. 13 of 1844.
An Ordinance for the appointment and regulation of Native Chinese Peace Officers (Paouchong and Paoukea) within the Colony of Hongkong. [31st May, 1844.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to adopt and preserve such Chinese Institutions as tend to the preservation of peace, and good order: Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
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ORDINANCES Nos. 12 AND 13 OF 1844.
Police Force Regulation.
Chinese Peace Officers Regulation.
Exemption from serving on Juries.
Penalty on pub. ✨ lican barbour- ing policemen.
Penalty on per- sons obstructing or refusing to assist policemen
in the execution
of their duty.
shall appear subscribed thereto, and that such person is reputed to be, and acts as a Magistrate for the Colony of Hongkong, and that the act or acts complained of were done in obedience to such warrant, the jury or Court, who shall try the said issue, shall find a verdict for the defendant, who shall also recover double his costs of suit.
15. And be it enacted, that the Chief, marine, and assistant Magistrates, the Superintendent, and constables of Police, and the clerks, inferior officers, and other officers, to be appointed under this Ordinance, so long as they shall continue to hold the said offices, or appointments respectively, shall be and are, and each of them is hereby exempted from serving on all juries, or inquests whatsoever.
18. And be it enacted, that if any victualler, or keeper of any house, shop, room, or other place, for the sale of any liquors, whether spirituous or otherwise, shall knowingly harbour or entertain any man belonging to the said Police Force, or permit such man to abide, or remain in his house, shop, room, or other place, during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty, every such victualler, or keeper as aforesaid, being convicted thereof, before any one Justice of the Peace, shall for every such offence forfeit, and pay such sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner, as the said Justice shall think meet.
17. And be it enacted, that if any person shall assault, or resist any person belonging to the said Police Force, in execution of his duty, or shall aid, or incite any person, so to assault, or resist, or shall refuse to assist him therein, when called upon so to do, every such offender, being thereof convicted before any one Justice of the Peace, shall, for every such offence, forfeit, and pay such sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner, as the said Justice at his discretion may adjudge.
[So much as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or superintendence of or control over the Police Force established by the ordinance other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his magisterial capacity exercise, repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1857. All repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1862.]
Title [See Ord. No. 3 of 1863.1
Preamble.
No. 13 of 1844.
An Ordinance for the appointment and regulation of Native Chinese Peace Officers (Paouchong and Paoukea) within the Colony of Hongkong. [31st May, 1844.]
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HEREAS it is expedient to adopt and preserve such Chinese Institutions as tend to the preservation of peace, and good order: Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
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