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ORDINANCES Nos . 15 AND 16 OF 1860 . 483


Registration of Boats, &c. Newspapers .


16. If any person shall resist, impede, or obstruct the Harbour Master or Obstructing In
spector.
Inspector or other person in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, he shall be
liable on conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars , or to imprisonment
with hard labour not exceeding three calendar months.

17. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the first day of January Commencement
of Ordinance.
next.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]




No. 16 of 1860 .


An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Newspapers in Hongkong .

[ 30th November, 1860. ]

E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the [60 G. 3. c. 9. ]
―― [1 W. 4. c. 73.]
BR advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. That on and after the first day of January next, no person shall print or Bond to be given.
by printer or
publish or cause to be printed or published , any newspaper, until he shall have entered publisher of
newspaper .
into a bond before the Registrar of the Supreme Court, together with two sufficient
sureties, to the satisfaction of such Registrar-every person printing or publishing any
such newspaper, in the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, and his sureties in a like
sum in the whole - conditioned that such printer or publisher shall pay every such fine
or penalty as may at any time be imposed upon or adjudged against him by reason of
any conviction for printing or publishing any libel at any time after the entering into
such bond- and also all costs of such conviction ; and as a further condition, that every
such printer or publisher shall pay all such damages and costs as may be recovered or
arise in any action for libel published in such newspaper. And every person who shall
print or publish, or cause to be printed or published any newspaper, without having
entered into such bond, with such sureties as aforesaid, shall , for every such offence
forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, together with costs of conviction .

2. Every bond so given as aforesaid may be sued upon in the name of the Attor Attorney General
or plaintiff to
ney General in cases of indictment or information , and of the plaintiff in any action sue.

for libel in which damages may have been recovered.

3. In every case in which any surety in any such bond shall have been required New sureties to
be provided in
certain cases.
to pay, and have paid, the whole or any part of the sum for which he shall have become
surety ; or in case he shall become bankrupt or insolvent, or shall cease to be a resident
in Hongkong, then and in every such case the person for whom such surety shall have