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Cost of removal of vagrant.
Removal of vagrant from the Colony.
Liability of certain persons to repay costs incurred by Government in respect of vagrant.
Vagrancy.
16. The cost of the removal from the Colony of any vagrant under this Ordinance shall be defrayed by the Government, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained for its refund.
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17. (1) When a vagrant has entered into such agreement, unless, in the opinion of the superintendent of the house of detention in which such vagrant is detained, suitable employment for him is likely to be speedily found, such superintendent may enforce such agreement and cause such vagrant to be removed from the Colony, and, if he deems it desirable, may call in the assistance of the police to place such vagrant on board ship, and he may be detained on board and shall be deemed in lawful custody while the ship is within the waters of the Colony.
(2) If, after the lapse of a reasonable time, no suitable employment has been found for a vagrant detained in a house of detention, and he has not entered into the agreement hereinbefore mentioned, or it is not thought desirable to remove him from the Colony, the superintendent of such house of detention may cause sections 24 and 28 to be read to such vagrant and may then release him.
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18. (a) Whenever any person, not being a Chinese, arrives in the Colony, under an engagement to serve any person, firm, company, association, or body of persons, in any capacity; and
(b) whenever a non-commissioned officer or soldier in His Majesty's army leaves the army in the Colony, under such an engagement; and
(c) whenever any seaman, other than a Chinese, is discharged from his ship in the Colony, without the sanction of the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office or his deputy, and without reasonable provision having been made as to his subsistence, or, not being a deserter, is wrongfully left behind in the Colony,
and within six months from the date of such arrival, leaving the army, or discharge, such person, non-commissioned officer or soldier, or seaman respectively becomes chargeable to the Colony as a vagrant, then, in cases within paragraphs (a) and (b), the person, firm, company, association, or body of
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Cost of removal of vagrant.
Removal of vagrant from the Colony.
Liability of certain persons to repay costs incurred by Government in respect of vagrant.
Vagrancy.
16. The cost of the removal from the Colony of any vagrant under this Ordinance shall be defrayed by the Government, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained for its refund.
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17. (1) When a vagrant has entered into such agree- ment, unless, in the opinion of the superintendent of the house of detention in which such vagrant is detained, suitable employment for him is likely to be speedily found, such superintendent may enforce such agreement and cause such vagrant to be removed from the Colony, and, if he deems it desirable, may call in the assistance of the police to place such vagrant on board ship, and he may be detained on board and shall be deemed in lawful custody while the ship is within the waters of the Colony.
(2) If, after the lapse of a reasonable time, no suitable employment has been found for a vagrant detained in a house of detention, and he has not entered into the agree- ment hereinbefore mentioned, or it is not thought desirable to remove him from the Colony, the superintendent of such house of detention may cause sections 24 and 28 to be read to such vagrant and may then release him.
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18. (a) Whenever any person, not being a Chinese, arrives in the Colony, under an engagement to serve any person, firm, company, association, or body of persons, in any capacity; and
(b) whenever a non-commissioned officer or soldier in His Majesty's army leaves the army in the Colony, under such an engagement; and
(c) whenever any seaman, other than a Chinese, is dis- charged from his ship in the Colony, without the sanction of the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office or his deputy, and without reasonable provision having been made as to his subsistence, or, not being a deserter, is wrongfully left behind in the Colony,
and within six months from the date of such arrival, leaving. the army, or discharge, such person, non-commissioned officer or soldier, or seaman respectively becomes chargeable to the Colony as a vagrant, then, in cases within paragraphs (a) and (b), the person, firm, company, association, or body of
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