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ORDINANCES Nos . 3 AND 4 OF 1846. 205


Insolvent Debtors. Ghaut Serang- Lascars.


understood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several persons as well
as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals ,
unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or
context repugnant to such construction.

69. And be it enacted and ordained , that this Ordinance shall commence and Commencement
of Ordinance.
come into operation, as to all matters not otherwise provided for, on the first day of
June, 1846.



[Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1864. ]



NOTE.- By rule of Court made under this Ordinance of the 12th November, 1846, a
schedule offees was fixed.




No. 4 of 1846.


An Ordinance to explain and extend the Provisions of the Ordinance to Title.
Establish a Licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hongkong, and

for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto .

[ 9th July, 1846. ]

HEREAS certain doubts have existed in the construction of Ordinance No. Preamble.
W 13 of 1845, as to the term " Lascar " therein used, and as it is deemed expedient
that the provisions thereof should be extended to all seamen, natives of Asia :

Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor for the time being of the The word
" Lascar" to
Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, with the advice of the Legislative Council extend to all
Asiatic seamen.
thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the word " Lascar " shall in
both Ordinances be held to include and comprehend all seamen , natives of India, and
that each and every provision made and ordained by the said Ordinance No. 13 of 1845,
touching and respecting " Lascars," shall be and are hereby extended to all other
seamen, being Malays, natives of Manila, or of any other part of Asia, except Chinese.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1852. ]