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2108 ORDINANCES Nos . 9 AND 10 OF 1887 .


Protection ofyoung Girls. Transportation and Penal Servitude.


C.
IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
In the matter of Ordinance 9 of 1887,
and in the matter of C.D. female
child.
To A.B.
These are to require you the said A.B. to be and appear before me at my office situate in
on to give information respecting the treatment of one C.D. a female child.
And take notice that if you do not attend you are liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars
and in default of payment of the same to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding three months.
Dated this

Registrar General.

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 19 of 1889. ]




No. 10 of 1887

An Ordinance to abolish Transportation and Penal Servitude
and to substitute other Punishment in lieu thereof.

[ 13th April , 1887. ]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

Penal servi. 1. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance no person
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lished. shall be sentenced to transportation or penal servitude , and any person

who, if this Ordinance had not been passed , might have been sentenced
to transportation or penal servitude , shall after the commencement of
this Ordinance be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour for a term of the same duration as the term of transportation or

penal servitude to which such person would have been liable if this
Ordinance had not been passed .

Persons under 2. All persons at present detained under any sentence of penal
penal servi
tude to be servitude shall for the remaining period of their sentence be deemed to
deemed to
have been have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, and shall be
sentenced to
hard labour. classed accordingly and shall be subject to all laws and rules relating to
the care, custody , management, employment and discipline of offenders

under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, in the same manner
as if they had been originally sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.

Repeal. 3. Ordinance 10 of 1858 is hereby repealed.