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Ordinancr No. 11 of 1856i.

[12th June, 1856.]

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 Victoria (Lighting) Ordinance, Short title.

1856.

2. The Surveyor General shall from time to time cause a sufficient number of irons or posts for the lighting of the streets, roads, ways, and public thoroughfares of the City of Victoria to be provided, and the same to be set up, fixed, or erected in all suitable situations for such lighting, and either in any of the said streets, roads, ways, and thoroughfares, or in any close adjacent thereto, or upon or against the wall of any house or building, or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he may think proper; and he shall also from time to time cause to be provided, und put and affixed upon the said irons and posts, such a number of lamps, and of such sizes and sorts respectively, as may be found requisite for the lighting of the said streets, roads, ways, and thoroughfares re- spectively.

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and kamps in

Victoria.

3. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Police to light and to Lighting of keep lighted the said lamps with oil for any number of hours in every lamps. twenty-four hours, as the Surveyor General may from time to time

direct.

4. The laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away, or stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively shall be interpreted to apply to the removing, taking, carrying away, or stealing of the said irons, posts, lamps, and oil respectively, by any persons whomsoever; and the property of and in all such articles shall be deemed to be vested in the Surveyor General for all the purposes of any proceedings, civil or cri- minal, brought or preferred against any person for or in respect of the same, or for or in respect of any trespass, injury, misdemeanor, or felony done or committed in respect of any of the said articles.

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to removal of fixtures and lamp posts. etc.

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5. Every person who wilfully extinguishes the light of any such lamp, Penalty for or wilfully injures, displaces, or damages any such lamp or any other of wilfully ex- the said articles, shall, on conviction thereof before a Magistrate, lanp, etc.

tinguishing forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding fifty dollars," and shall further forfeit and pay the full amount of the damage so done by him as aforesaid and all incidental costs and expenses.