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DIEU DROIT




HONGKONG ,


ANNO NONO




VICTORIÆ REGINE .


No. 12 of 1845 .


Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten-
dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of
the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to Amend the Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, entitled, Title.
" An Ordinance for the Suppression of the Triad and other Secret
Societies in the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies. "
[20th October, 1845. ]


WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to Amend the said Ordinance Preamble.
No. 1 of 1845, with a view to introducing certain Limitations, and
giving additional Certainty to its Provisions :

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Operation of the Or-
Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council dinance
limited toNo. 1 of1845,
certain cases.
thereof, That no Person or Persons shall be considered as coming
within the Provisions or Intent of the before mentioned Ordinance,
No. 1 of 1845 , who shall have joined the Triad Society in Ignorance
of its Designs, or under the Influence of Terror, or who shall not
be duly convicted of Active Participation in some Unlawful Act
arising out of his or their Connection with the said Society.

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That so far as the ked Convicts to be
as in the mar-
case of
said Enactment provides that any Offender shall, in Addition to the Deserters, and banish-
other Punishments or Penalties contained in the said Ordinance, No. ed from the Island, at
the Discretion of the
1 of 1845, be marked on the Right Cheek, the same be, and is hereby court.
repealed : But it is further provided, that in case of any Conviction
under these Ordinances, or either of them, the presiding Judge shall
in his Discretion have Power to direct, as an Additional Punishment,
that after the Expiration of the Term of Imprisonment to which any
such Offender or Offenders may be subjected, he or they shall be
marked