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292 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1855 .


Neutrality.


thousand dollars (such punishment to be accumulative or not at the discretion of the
adjudicating tribunal) for any person resident within the Colony of Hongkong to
assist either the existing Chinese Government or any of the different factions at pre
sent engaged or who may be hereafter engaged in opposition to the said Government
by personal enlistment in war service or by procuring other persons to enlist in such
service or by furnishing, selling, or procuring warlike stores of any description or by
fitting out vessels, or by knowingly and purposely doing any other act to assist either
party by which neutrality may be violated .
Constitution of 2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the tribunal for adjudicating on
adjudicating tri
banal.
[* See Ord. No. 6 . offences of the description intended to be dealt with by this Ordinance shall be com
of 1862.]
No appeal. posed of the Chief Magistrate and two other Magistrates, and that there shall be no
appeal whatsoever either by certiorari or otherwise from the decision of such tribunal.
Armed Chinese 3. And be it further enacted and ordained , that if any armed vessel whatsoever
vessels, removal
of.
carrying any Chinese flag be found within any of the waters of this Colony and such
vessel shall not depart therefrom within twenty-four hours after a notice to depart from
these waters, signed by the Colonial Secretary, has been served on board thereof, such
vessel shall , with everything found on board of it , be seized and sold or made forfeit to
the Crown on due condemnation by the said Magistrates .
Manufacture of
guns, cannon, 4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that from and after the first day of
gunpowder, &c.
in the Colony, February no person shall within Hongkong and its dependencies or the waters thereof
prohibited from
1st February, manufacture any gun, cannon or other machine which can be used for the discharge
1855.
of ammunition , or any shot or any gunpowder or other explosive substance of the
nature of gunpowder or capable of being employed in discharging cannon, or any stink
pots or any composition of the same or similar nature as that whereof stink pots are
composed, under penalty, upon conviction of a breach of any part of this section, to
Penalty. imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve calendar months and of a fine not ex
ceeding five hundred dollars , such penalties to be accumulative or not at the discretion
of the adjudicating tribunal.
Sale of arms and 5. And be it further enacted and ordained, that no person shall, within Hong
ammunition to
require a permit. kong and its dependencies or the waters thereof, sell, barter or willingly part with the
possession, under any excuse whatsoever, of any gun, cannon or other instrument
Exception. which can be used for the discharge of ammunition (excepting always European fowl
ing pieces and pistols of every description whatever) or any shot or any gunpowder
or other explosive substance of the nature of gunpowder or capable of being employed
in the same manner as gunpowder, without having previously obtained, in each par
ticular instance, a permit in writing from the Chief Magistrate or any two Justices of
Permit how ob the Peace, and such permit shall state the nature of the transaction and the person to
tained, and na
ture thereof. whom the property is to be transferred . Provided always , that the necessity for such
European gun permit shall not extend to European gunpowder in quantities not exceeding five pounds
powder under
5lbs. excepted. at one time on any one day, and that any person convicted of a breach under this
Penalty, section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding twelve months.