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ORDINANCE No. 1 or 1863.

Police Magistrates.

No. 1 of 1863.

An Ordinance to amend certain provisions in Ordinance No 6 of 1862, intituled "An Ordinance to abolish the Office of Chief Magistrate, and to appoint and define the duties of two Police Magistrates."

[6th February, 1863.]

E it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the advice

of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby repealed.

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2. It shall be competent for a Police Magistrate to award as punishment for crime or offence imprisonment in any gaol of this Colony for auy period not exceeding six calendar months with or without hard labour or any fine not exceeding fifty dollars or both fine and imprisonment not exceeding these limits, and it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to direct any portion of such imprisonment not exceeding one month in the whole to be solitary, but that such solitary imprisonment shall not exceed fourteen consecutive days, and further when any male offender shall be convicted under the said or this Ordinance of either of the offences next hereinafter specified a second time or under aggravated circumstances, that is to say: indecent exposure of his person, in- decent assault, assault with intent to rob, assault in a brothel, assault at or in connexion with any riotous assemblage, or for malicious injury to property, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order and direct that in addition to any other punishment to which such male offender shall be sentenced that such offender shall be once or twice publicly or privately whipped. This section shall be read and construed as if the same had originally been section 5 of the said Ordinance.

3. Two Magistrates, sitting together, shall and they are hereby empowered to hear and determine cases of stealing from the person, whenever such stealing is un- accompanied by personal violence by means of kicking or beating; and in every such case the said Justices may adjudge the offender on conviction to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or may commit the offender for trial at the Supreme Court.

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875.]

Title.

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Sec. 5 of Ordinance No. 6- of 1862 repealed.

Punishment.

With or without solitary, confine- ment.

Corporal punish- ment may be

added.

This section to be construed as if it had been Sec. 5 of No, 6 of 1862.

Stealing from the person without kicking or beating triable by two Justices.