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A.D. 1887.]

TRANSPORTATION, ETC.

[No. 4.

545

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Transportation and Penal Short title. Servitude Abolition Ordinance, 1887.

transporta.

penal servi-

rude and substitution

2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, no person Abolition of shall be sentenced to transportation or penal servitude, and any person on and who, if this Ordinance had not been passed, might have been sentenced to transportation or penal servitude shall, after the commencement of this Ordinance, be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for a term of the same duration as the term of transportation or penal servitude to which such person would have been liable if this Ordinance had not been passed.

of imprison. hard labour.

ment with

penal servi- deemed to sentenced to

tude to be

have been

3. All persons at present detained under any sentence of penal Persons under servitude shall, for the remaining period of their sentence, be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, and shall be classed accordingly, and shall be subject to all laws and rules relating to the care, custody, management, employment, and discipline of offenders imprisonment under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, in the same manner labour. as if they had been originally sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.

with hard

ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1887.

AN ORDINANCE for the more effectual Prevention of Crimes.

A.D. 1887.

བཝིསྶ ཡམ-

[19th April, 1887.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows :---

Ordinance

No. 11 of LSST

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance, Short title, 1887.

Licences.

Governor to grant licener to be at large under sen-

2. (1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor, by an order in writing Power to under his hand and seal, to grant to any cổnvier now under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, or who may hereafter be sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, a licence to be at large in this Colony or in such part thereof as in the licence may be expressed, during such portion of his term of imprisonment and on such conditions in all re- spects as to the Governor may seem fit.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to revoke or alter any such licence by a like order at his pleasure.

tence of hard labour,

16 & 17 1iet. c. 99 s. 9.