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ORDINANCES Nos . 16 AND 17 OF 1887. 2133


Whipping. Cattle Diseases, Slaughter-Houses, and Markets.


the Supreme Court may in addition to the punishments awarded for such
crimes direct that the offender if a male be once, twice or thrice privately

whipped.
2. If any person shall be convicted under section 27 [ " 28 " as Offences
against Ord.
amended by Ordinance No. 23 of 1887 ] of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 of 7 of 1865,
s. 27, [28 ]
stealing any chattel money or valuable security from the person of any tobe punished
by whipping.
child or woman without violence, the Court or Magistrate* before which
[*See note at
such person is tried may in addition to the punishment awarded for such foot. ]

crime direct that the offender if a male be once, twice or thrice privately

whipped.
3. In the case of any offender whose age does not exceed sixteen Number of
strokes.
years the number of strokes at each such whipping shall not exceed
twelve.
In the case of every other male offender convicted under this
Ordinance the number of strokes shall not exceed thirty- six at each such
whipping.
4. It shall not be lawful to award any sentence of whipping on the Whipping
be inflictedto
back, and every sentence of whipping shall prescribe the number of withnumberof
and a rattan
strokes to be
strokes and shall provide that such whipping shall be inflicted with a mentioned in
sentence.
rattan on the breech, privately in prison and within six months of the
[No. 12 of
sentence. 1865, and No.
3 of 1881 , sec.
3. ]
Present
5. Provided that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be powers of
construed as limiting the powers now possessed by the Supreme Court to Supreme
Court not
award whipping as an additional punishment for certain crimes . limited .

[ So much ofthis Ordinance as relates to the power of a Magistrate to order
whipping: Repealed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1890
as from January 1st, 1891. ]



No. 17 of 1887.

An Ordinance entitled The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter-Houses, and [See amend
ing Ord. No.
Markets Ordinance, 1887. 23 of 1890.j

[ 20th June, 1887. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong , with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. In the construction of this Ordinance, the term City of Victoria Definitions.

means the City of Victoria bounded as follows : ---