ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1866.
Order and Cleanliness.
11. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to appoint a duly qualified medical practitioner to be the medical inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual salary as may be voted.
12. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the medical inspector, or any two resident medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupied by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance 1866," by notice affixed to the house, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit; and in case any order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as aforesaid, within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.
13. The said medical inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any person refusing to permit the said medical inspector to enter and examine any such house shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days.
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Power to the Governor to appoint a medical inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licence fees to be in arrear.
14. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors granted under Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 shall permit any instalment of his licence fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he 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, may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month.
15. Whenever any person who has been deported under the provisions of any Ordinance, shall return to the Colony of Hongkong before the expiration of his sentence, without permission from His Excellency the Governor, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order him to be again deported for any period to be then fixed, and in addition to be previously imprisoned for one month with hard labor and to be branded and to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged, but in no case shall the number of strokes inflicted at one time exceed thirty-six.
16. Any person who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, in the Colony of Hong-kong, any such Chinese under sentence of deportation, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars or in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding six months.
Penalty on persons who have been deported, returning without permission to the Colony.
Penalty on persons knowingly harboring Chinese under sentence of deportation.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1866.
Order and Cleanliness.
11. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to appoint a duly qualified medical practitioner to be the medical inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual salary as may be voted.
12. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the medical inspector, or any two resident medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupied by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance 1866," by notice affixed to the house, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit; and in case any order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as aforesaid, within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.
13. The said inedical inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: auy person refusing to permit the said medical inspector to enter and examine any such house shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days.
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Power to the Governor to appoint a medical inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses,
Penalty on persons refusing
permit their houses to be Inspected.
Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licence fees to be in arrear.
14. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors granted Penalty on under Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 shall permit any instalment of his licence fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he 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, may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month.
15. Whenever any person who has been deported under the provisions of any Ordinance, shall return to the Colony of Hongkong before the expiration of his sentence, without permission from His Excellency the Governor, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order bim to be again deported for any period to be then fixed, and in addition to be previously imprisoned for one month with hard labor and to be branded and to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged, but in no case shall the number of strokes inflicted at one time exceed thirty-six.
16. Any person who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, in the Colony of Hong- kong, any such Chinese under sentence of deportation, shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars or in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding six months.
Penalty on persons who have been deported, returning without permission to the Colony,
Penalty on persons knowingly harboring Chinese under sentence of
deportation.
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