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STONE CUTTERS' ISLAND . ( 1 of 1889. ] 1117

summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a penalty
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or
without bard labour for any term not exceeding three months.
An order granted to any contractor employed either by the
Surveyor General or by the Commanding Royal Engineer shall
cover all Chinese labourers specifically mentioned in such order
actually employed on work in the island.
2. When any person lands or is found on the said island any Power
arrest . of
guard may require such person to shew his order for the purpose,
and if such person upon being so required does not produce and
shew his order, or if the said guard suspects that the order
produced and shewn to him is not an order duly granted to
such person or not sufficient authority for such person to be
then upon the said island he may arrest sucli person forth with
and deliver him into the charge of a constable or officer of the
Police Force .
3. The term " guard ” in this ordinance shall include any Term Guarl..
soldier or sentry belonging to Her Majesty's regular troops who
is employed on military duty in the said island.
4. The Governor may from time to time by proclamation in Power to
the Gazette exempt any portion or portions of the Island to be overnight
portion of
defined by such proclamation from the operation of this ordi- island ,
nance and may from time to time vary or revoke any such
proclamation .

Proclamation ( Gazette 24th October, 1891.)
By His Excellency Major-General GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Companion
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath , Officer Administering the
Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander
in - Chief and Vice - Admiral of the same .
Wbereas by Ordinance No. 11 of 1889, intituled The Stone Cutters'
Island Ordinance, 1889, it is enacted that it should be lawful for the Govern
or, from time to time by proclamation in the Gazette, to exempt any portion
or portions of Stone Cutters' Island, to be defined by such proclamation, from
the operation of the said recited ordinance and from time to time to vary or
revoke any such proclamation .
And whereas by proclamation in the Gazette of the 20th day of April,
1889, certain portions of the said Island were duly exempted from the operation
of the said ordinance and it is now expedient to revoke the said proclamation
and to exempt from the operation of the said ordinance the portion of the said
island hereinafter mentioned .
Now , therefore, I, the said Major-General George Digby BARKER, do by
this Proclamation hereby revoke the said Proclamation of the 20th April,
1889, and do hereby exempt from the operation of the said ordinance the
following portion of the said Island, viz.:
The Government Gunpowder Depôt. - Bounded on the North and South
by the shore lines, on the West by the Western wall of the Old Gaol
and on the East by the Military Reserve Boundary as marked out
by boundary stones.