914
Chinese money-changers to be licensed.
Penalty on an unlicensed person acting as money-changer.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the city of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome food or liquor, &c., may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warrants to search houses and shops may be granted in certain cases.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1866.
Order and Cleanliness.
6. From and after the first day of January, 1867, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a money-changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a licence to do so from the Registrar General, which licence shall remain in force for one year, and for which the sum of five dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
7. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a money-changer in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a licence, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate any of the conditions contained in the said licence shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding three months.
8. The keeping of pigs, or of other animals likely to be injurious to the public health, within the city of Victoria without a special licence from the Registrar General is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a pig or other such animal in the said city of Victoria, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and the said pig or other animal shall also be forfeited.
9. Any person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop in the Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding six months; and in case the person convicted shall be a licensed spirit dealer, or boarding-house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his licence.
10. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any constable or credible person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food, is exposed, or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawful for such Justice in his discretion, to grant a warrant to any constable to enter and search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if necessary, break open the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed, but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper owner. And in case of a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition to any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution of the said warrant.
914
Chinese money- changers to be licensed.
Penalty on an unlicensed
person acting as money-changer.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public
health to be kept within the city of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome. food or liquor, &c., may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warrants to search houses
and shops may be granted in certain cases.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1866.
Order and Cleanliness.
6. From and after the first day of January, 1867, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese to act as a money-changer in the Colony of Hongkong, unless he has previously obtained a licence to do so from the Registrar General, which licence shall remain in force for one year, and for which the sum of five dollars shall be annually paid to the Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
7. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a money-changer in the Colony of Hongkong without having obtained such a licence, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate any of the conditions contained in the said licence shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceed- ing twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding three months.
8. The keeping of pigs, or of other animals likely to be injurious to the public health, within the city of Victoria without a special licence from the Registrar General is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a Justice of the Peace of keeping a pig or other such animal in the said city of Victoria, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and the said pig or other animal shall also be forfeited.
9. Any person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop in the Colony of Hongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding six months; and in case the person convicted shall be a licensed spirit dealer, or boarding-house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his licence.
10. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any constable or credible person that there is good reason to believe that any such tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other article of food, is exposed, or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony, it shall be lawful for such Justice in his discretion, to grant a warrant to any constable to enter and search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if necessary, break open the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed, but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper owner. And in case of a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition to any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution of the said warrant.
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