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UNCLAIMED BALANCES . 11 OF 1888 . 1023
VAGRANCY. 12 OF 1888 .
(D. )
Notice is hereby given that if the sums mentioned in schedules A and B
of Ordinance No. of 188 copies of which have been posted up in the
Supreme Court and published in the Government Gazette of the
are not claimed within six months, from the they will be
paid over to the general revenue of the Colony.
The sums mentioned in schedule C. to the said ordinance, a copy of which
has been posted and published, will also be paid over to the Treasury if not
claimed within one year from the said date.
Registry Supreme Court.
Registrar.



No. 12 OF 1888 .

An Ordinance entitled The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1888.
[3rd March, 1888. ]
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1. In this ordinance the term Vagrant means any person Interpreta
tion .
other than a Chinese found asking for alms or without any
employment or visible means of subsistence.
Agent of a vessel includes any person who undertakes the
agency of such vessel, though he may not be the consignee
thereof.

2. The Governor may provide a house of detention for Governor
vagrants at such place as hemay think proper, and may appoint may provide
a superintendent and such officers as he may think proper , and detention ;
in the mean
may remove any such superintendent or officers at pleasure. time Victoria
Gaol declared
The Governor may by notification in the Gazette certify any as such.
building or part of a building to be a house of detention for the
purposes ofthis ordinance, and until any such house be provided
the gaol at Victoria may be used as such house for the purpose
of this ordinance .

3. Every house of detention shall be under the immediate Governor to
appoint
charge of a superintendent who shall be appointed, and may be superintend.
suspended or removed by the Governor, and until any other ent. Mean
appointment is made the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol shall tendent
time Superin
of
be the superintendent of the house of detention . Victoria Gaol
to be superin
tendent.
4. Any Police officer may require any person who is appa- Conveyance
rently a vagrant to accompany him or any other Police officer trate
befor,e Magis.
to, and to appear before, a Magistrate.