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352 ORDINANCES Nos. 11 AND 12 OF 1856 .


Lighting City. Chinese Burials and Nuisances.


and no warrant shall be in any case necessary to justify the apprehension
of any such offender as aforesaid.
Carelessness
or accidental 6. When any damage or injury shall have been occasioned unto any
damage. such articles by any person otherwise than wilfully, and such person shall
not have made satisfaction for the same , it shall be the duty of any Justice
of the Peace, upon complaint thereof made , to order and compel the said
person to make full satisfaction for the amount of such damage or injury,
together with all incidental costs and expenses.

Summary pro 7. All proceedings before a Justice of the Peace under this Ordinance,
cedure before
Justices. except as provided by section 4 shall be had, and the payment of all
pecuniary penalties, costs , and damages under the same shall be enforced ,
in like manner as in other cases of or belonging to the summary jurisdic
tion of Justices is by law provided .

Disposal of 8. All monies recovered or received under this Ordinance shall be
monies.
paid into the Colonial Treasury.




No. 12 of 1856 .

An Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent cer

tain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong .

[ 12th June, 1856. ]
Preamble. HEREAS the increase of population and buildings in the City of
WE
Victoria has made it necessary to provide other arrangements
for the interment of the dead , and whereas there exist certain nuisances
which the laws hitherto in force have failed effectually to prevent : Be

it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner
following, that is to say :
Interpreta 1. For the construction as well of this Ordinance as of Ordinance
tion of terms.
No. 14 of 1845 , the Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 , the Ordinance No. 8 of
1856 , and the Ordinance No. 11 of 1856 , the following rules of con
struction shall be observed in addition to whatsoever other rules are by
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the said Ordinances respectively provided, that is to say :
" Public Offi The expressions " Public Officer " or " Public Department " shall
cer " or " De
partment. " extend to and include His Excellency the Governor and every officer or