ORDINANCES Nos. 12 AND 13 OF 1868.
Chinese Emigration.
Treasonable Offences.
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force or fraud taken and obtained as in this section before mentioned, shall be guilty of felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labor.
20. Every passage broker shall be liable to make good all penalties and expenses chargeable to him under this Ordinance, as fully and in the same manner as he is now liable to make good penalties under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
21. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship and any emigration passage broker and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall without prejudice to any other proceeding civil or criminal be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding six months.
22. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
[Confirmation proclaimed 26th February, 1869; repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1874. See also No. 3 of 1874.]
Passage broker liable to make good all penalties, &c. in the same manner as under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
Punishment of persons committing any breach of this Ordinance.
Suspending clause.
No. 13 of 1868.
An Ordinance to assimilate the laws of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom.
[13th October, 1868.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to assimilate the law of this Colony respecting treasonable offences to the Law of the United Kingdom: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. Ordinance No. 8 of 1868 shall be and the same hereby is repealed.
2. From and after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the third, chapter seven, made perpetual by an Act of the
Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 8 of 1868.
Provisions of 36 Geo. 3, chap. 7 and 57 Geo. 3, chap. 6, not to be of force in this Colony, except
ORDINANCES Nos, 12 AND 13 OF 1868.
Chinese Emigration.
Treasonable Offences.
1019
force or fraud taken and obtained as in this section before mentioned, shall be guilty of felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labor.
20. Every passage broker shall be liable to make good all penalties and expenses chargeable to him under this Ordinance, as fully and in the same manner as he is now liable to make good penalties under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
21. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship and any emigration passage broker and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, perimit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall without prejudice to any other proceeding civil or criminal be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding six months.
22. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirma- tion thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
[Confirmation proclaimed 26th February, 1869; repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1874. See also No. 3 of 1874.]
Passage broker liable to make
good all penal- ties, &c. in the same manner as under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
Punishment of persons coin- mitting any breach of this Ordinance.
Suspending clause.
No. 13 of 1868.
An Ordinance to assimilate the laws of this Colony respecting Treason-
able Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom.
W
[13th October, 1868.]
HEREAS it is expedient to assimilate the law of this Colony respecting treason- able offences to the Law of the United Kingdom: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. Ordinance No. 8 of 1868 shall be and the same hereby is repealed.
2. From and after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the third, chapter seven, made perpetual by an Act of the
Title.
Preamble,
Repeal of Ordi nance No. 8 of 1868.
Provisions of 36 Geo. 3, chap. 75 and 57 Geo. 3, chap. 6, not to be of force in this. Colony, except
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