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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1844. 15


Good order and cleanliness.


removing, or otherwise injuring any property whatsoever, or shall neglect to affix to Committing
wanton mischief;
his house and keep alight during the night, such lamp or lanthorn as may be required Neglecting to
affix light to
and approved of by the Superintendent of Police, or shall keep any house for the house; Keeping
honse for prosti
tutes: Frequent
occupancy of public prostitutes, or shall keep or be found in any gambling shop whereof ing gambling
houses: Having
notice shall not have been given to the Chief Magistrate of Police , or shall have in his unlawful imple
ment in his pos
possession any spear, bludgeon , or other offensive weapon, or any crowbar, picklock, session with
intent to use the
skeleton key, or other instrument fit for unlawful purposes, with intent to use the same same; Assem
bling in the
for such unlawful purpose, or if any persons shall assemble together in the night-time night-time;

without a lawful reason for so assembling, or if any person seeing any such assemblage,
or knowing or having reason to suspect that such assemblage, was about to be or had
been made , shall not raise an alarm and give immediate notice thereof to the Not giving notice
of such assem
nearest guard house or police station, or if any person shall behave in a riotous, noisy, blage; Behaving
riotonsly. Being
drunk: Using
or disorderly manner, although no actual breach of the peace shall take place, or shall improper lan
guage; Insulting
be seen drunk in any public road or passage, or shall use any profane or indecent females; Pro
voking a breach
language, or insult auy female in public, or shall make any offensive jokes, gestures , of the peace;
or threats towards any one present which shall be likely to create a breach of the peace,
or shall challenge any one to fight, or if any person shall beg, or expose any sore or
infirmity to view with the object of exciting compassion and obtaining alms, or shall Begging or ex
posing person :
lewdly or indecently expose his person by bathing or otherwise near any public road, Not giving a sa
tisfactory ac
count of himself:
or shall not be able to give a satisfactory account of himself and of his way of living,
or who being abroad at night- time shall not give a satisfactory reason for so being, or
if any persons shall pretend to tell fortunes, or to exercise any magic arts, or shall
otherwise impose on the credulity or superstition of any one whatsoever, with a view to Cheats orimpost
ures; Playing
gain, or shall attempt to defraud any person of any money by pretending that the same in public roads;
Obstructing or
is counterfeit, or if any person shall play at any game in any public passage or road so refusing to assist
officer in his
duty;
as to obstruct the same or create a noisy assembly therein , or shall resist any Justice
of the Peace, constable, peace officer, or policeman in the execution of his duty, or shall
neglect to assist such officer therein when called upon so to do , or if any person
employed as a domestic servant or otherwise shall quit his employer's service without Servant quitting
employ without
giving such warning thereof as shall afford reasonable time to his employer to procure giving warning
or exposing his
another person to act in his stead, or shall neglect or absent himself from his duty employer's pro
perty to injury or
wilfully disobey
without leave, so as to destroy injure or endanger the safety of his employer's property, ing orders;
Watchmen
or shall wilfully disobey such employer's lawful and reasonable orders , or if any person sleeping being
negligent or
employed as a guard or watchman shall sleep at his post, or be negligent remiss or cowardly; Cruelly
injuring animals;
cowardly in the execution of his duty, or if any person shall want only and cruelly &c. Penalty.

mutilate or otherwise illuse any horse, mule, dog or other animal without necessity :
Then and in every such case the person so offeuding shall forfeit and pay to Her
Majesty Her Heirs and Successors for the public purposes of the Colony of Hongkong
such sum not exceeding two hundred dollars as shall be adjudged in the manner here
inafter mentioned.

2. And be it enacted that after conviction for any offence against this Ordinance, After one convic
tou offender
the offender shall be ordered by the convicting Justice or Justices to do such act as liable to double
penalties.