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WHIPPING . 116 OF 1887 . 937
CATTLE DISEASES, SLAUGHTER - HOUSES ( 17 OF 1887. ]
AND MARKETS .


2. If any person shall be convicted under section 28 of Or- Offences
dinance No. 7 of 1865 of stealing any chattel money or valuable 7against
of 1865,Ord.
s.
security from the person of any child or woman without violence , 28 to be
punished
the Court or Magistrate * before which such person is tried may whipping.
in addition to the punishment awarded for such crime direct [ No. 23 of
that the offender if a male be once, twice or thrice privately 1887.)
[*See note at
whipped. foot.]
3. In the case of any offender whose age does not exceed Number of
sixteen years the number of strokes at each such whippingshall strokes.
not exceed twelve.
In the case of every other male offender convicted under this (* query : un
ordinance * the number of strokes shall not exceed thirty -six at der any of the
ordinances
each such whipping . herein
mentioned .]
4. It shall not be lawful to award any sentence of whipping be Whipping
inflicted
to
on the back, and every sentence of whipping shall prescribe the with a rattan
and numberof
number of strokes and shall provide that such whipping shall strokes to be
be inflicted with a rattan on the breech , privately in prison and mentioned in
sentence .
within six months of the sentence . [ No. 12 of
1865, and No.
3 of 1881 , sec.
3. ]
5. Provided that nothing in this ordinance contained shall Present
be construed as limiting the powers now possessed by the Su- Supreme
powers of
preme Court to award whipping as an additional punishment Court not
for certain crimes .

[ So much of this ordinance as relates to the power of a
Magistrate to order whipping : Repealed by
Ordinance No. 10 of 1890.]



No. 17 OF 1887.
An Ordinance entitled The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter- ing Amend
( SeeOrd . No.
Houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1887. 23 of 1890. ]
[ 20th June, 1887. ]
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1. In the construction of this ordinance, the term City of Definitions.
Victoria means the City of Victoria bounded as follows :
On the north by the harbour, on the south by the Pokfú
lam and Taitam conduits , on the east by a straight
line drawn from Whitfield Police Station to the mouth
of the Taitam tunnel, and on the west by Mount
Davis,