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DIEU DROIT




HONGKONG ,
18


ANNO SEPTIMO



VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.



No. 14 of 1844 .


Y His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire, Governor
BY 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 for the Suppression of Public Gaming in the Title.
Colony of Hongkong.
[ 10th June, 1844. ]


WHEREAS, it is expedient to suppress the pernicious Practice
of Public Gaming in the Colony of Hongkong :

I. Be it therefore enacted by his Excellency the Governor of Penaltya on Person
Gambling
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That House .
any Person who shall for Gain or Lucre keep any House, Room, or
Place, Boat, Vessel, or any Place on Land or Water, for Public
Playing or Gambling, or shall permit any Person to Play within such
House, Room, Boat, Vessel, or any Place on Land or Water as afore-
said, shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars on
Conviction thereof in a Summary Manner.

II. And be it enacted, That any Person who shall Use, Haunt, or
Penalty on Persons
haunting Gambling
be Found within such House, Room, Boat, Vessel, or any Place on Houses.
Land or Water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding Fifty
Dollars on Conviction thereof in a Summary Manner.

III. And be it enacted, That the Person appearing or acting as Master tobeacting
Person as
liableto
Master, or as having the Care and Management of any such House, Penalty.
Room, or Place as aforesaid, shall be taken to be the Keeper thereof,
and shall be liable as such to the Penalty aforesaid .
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