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44 COLONIAL ORDINANCES .


Oath. 66
I, do swear that I will well and truly
" serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the Office of Chief, or
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Assistant, or Marine Magistrate, or Superintendent of Police , (as the
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Case may be) without Favour or Affection, Malice or Ill-will ; that
" I will see and cause Her Majesty's Peace to be kept and preserved ;
" and that I will prevent, to the best of my Power, all Offences
" against the same ; and that while I shall continue to hold the said
" Office, I will, to the best of my Skill and Knowledge, discharge
" all the Duties thereof faithfully according to Law : So help me
" God."
And no Person appointed under this Ordinance to be Chief,
or Assistant, or Marine Magistrate, or Superintendent of Police, shall
be capable of holding the said Office, or of acting in any way therein ,
until he shall take and subscribe the above Oath ; and the said Oath
shall be administered by any Two Justices of the Peace at Hongkong ;
and such Justices shall forthwith give to the Person taking the
same a Certificate thereof under their Hands, such Certificate to be
forwarded to the Governor of the said Colony, or to such Person as he
shall appoint.


Policemen appoint- II. And be it enacted, That a sufficient Number of fit and able
ed, to have
Constables. Power ofMen shall from Time to Time be appointed by the Governor as
a Police Force for the whole of the Colony of Hongkong, who shall be
sworn in by the Chief or Assistant Magistrates, to act as Constables
for preserving the Peace, and preventing Robberies and other Felonies,
and apprehending Offenders against the Peace ; and the Men so
sworn in shall have all such Powers, Authorities, Privileges, and
Advantages, and be liable to all such Duties and Responsibilities, as
any Constable duly appointed now has, or hereafter may have, either
by the Common Law, or by virtue of any English State or Colonial
Ordinance, now or hereafter to be in Force in the said Colony of
Hongkong, and shall obey all such lawful Commands as they may from
Time to Time receive from the said Chief, Marine, or Assistant Magis-
trate, and Superintendent of Police, or any other inferior Officers
who may at any Time be appointed over them.

Chief Magistrate to III. And in order to provide for one uniform System of Rules
make Rules with Ap-
probation of the Go- and Regulations throughout the whole Establishment of Police in
vernor.
Hongkong : Be it enacted, That the said Chief Magistrate may, from
Time to Time, subject to the Approbation of the Governor for the time
being, frame such Orders and Regulations as he shall deem expedient
for the general Government of the Men to be appointed Members of
the Police Force under this Ordinance, the Places of their Residence,
the Classification, Rank, and particular Service of the several Mem-
bers, their Distribution and Inspection, the description of Arms,
Accoutrements, and other Necessaries to be furnished to them, and
which of them shall be provided with Horses for the Performance of
their Duties, and all such Orders and Regulations relative to the said
Police Force as the said Chief Magistrate shall from Time to Time
deem expedient for preventing Neglect or Abuse, and for rendering
such Force efficient in the Discharge of all its Duties ; and the said
Chief Magistrate may at any time suspend or dismiss from his
Employment any Man belonging to the said Police Force, whom he
shall think remiss or negligent in the Discharge of his Duty, or
otherwise unfit for the same ; and when any Man shall be so
dismissed