LIGHTING THE CITY OF VICTORIA ORDINANCE

LIGHTING THE CITY OF VICTORIA ORDINANCE

No. 11 of 1856.

Lighting City.

An Ordinance for Lighting the City of Victoria.

[12th June, 1856.]

WHEREAS it is desirable that a system of public lighting should be
introduced into this City: lie it enacted and ordained by His
Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:-

For defraying the expenses of and incident to the execution of this
Ordinance,
there shall be levied quarterly, together with and in addition to the
Police rate or rates
for the year, a further rate to be called 'The Lighting Rate,' and
estimated at one and
a half per cent on the gross amount of the property included in the
Police rate assess-.
ORDINANCE; ho. :11 of L85G.

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ment for the current year; and all the provisions of the Ordinances No. 2
of 1845 and
No. 3 of 1851, touching valuation, assessment, levy, and appeal, shall
extend and apply
to the said 'Lighting Rate.', [Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1863.1

2. The Surveyor General shall from time to time cause a sufficient
number of irons or posts for the lighting of the streets, roads, ways; and
public thoroughfares of the City of Victoria to be provided, and the same
to be set up, fixed, or erected, in all suitable situations for such
lighting,
and either in any of the said streets, roads, ways, and thoroughfares, or
in any close adjacent thereto, or upon or against the wall of any house or
building, or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he shall
think
proper; and he shall also from time to time cause to be provided, and put,
and affixed upon the said irons and posts, such a number of lamps, and
of such sizes and sorts respectively, as shall be found requisite for the
lighting of the said streets, roads, ways, and thoroughfares respectively.
And it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Police to light and to
keep lighted the said lamps with oil for any number of hours in. every
twenty-four hours, as the said Surveyor General shall from time to time
direct.

3. The laws relating to the removing, -taking, carrying away, or
stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively, shall be interpreted to
apply
to the removing; taking, carrying away, or stealing of the said irons,
posts,
lamps, and oil respectively, by any persons whomsoever ; and the property
of and in all such articles shall be deemed to be vested in the Surveyor
General for all the purposes of any action, suit, or information brought
or preferred against any person for or in respect of the same, or for or.
in
respect of any trespass, injury, misdemeanor, or felony done or committed
in respect of any of the said articles.

4. If any person shall wilfully extinguish the light of any such lamp,
wilful dam-
or wilfully injure, displace, or damage any such lamp or any other of the
age, » e~ p°n-
said articles, every such offender shall, upon conviction thereof before
any
Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars nor less than one dollar, and shall further forfeit
and
pay the full amount of the damage by him so done as aforesaid, and all
incidental costs and expenses. r

~. It shall .be lawful for any person witnessing the commission of an
Apprehension
of offenders
offence against section 3 of this Ordinance, to, seize the said offender,
without war-.
qnd to deliver him to any constable, or to the said Justice of the Peace;
rant.

The Surveyor:
General to
provide and
fix lamps, 3cc.,.
and the Su-
perintendent
of Police to
keep them
lighted.

Laws relat:ng-
to removal or
felony of fix-
tures and
chattels, ex-
tended to
lamps, irons,
&c.
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and no warrant shall be in any case necessary to justify the apprehension
of any such offender as aforesaid.
A' 4relessness g, When any damage or injury shall have been occasioned
unto. any
or accidental
-damage- such articles by any person otherwise than wilfully, and such
person shall
not have made satisfaction for the same, it shall be the duty of any
Justice
of the Peace, upon complaint thereof made, to order and compel the said
person to make full satisfaction for the amount of such damage or:injury,'
together with all incidental costs and expenses.
-~ummarypro 7. All proceedings before a Justice of the Peace under this
Ordinance,
cedars before
.Justices. except as provided by section 4 shall be had, and the payment
of all
pecuniary penalties, costs, and damages under the same shall be enforced;
in like manner as in other cases of or belonging to the summary jurisdic=
tion of Justices is by law provided.
nhpqsal of $. All monies recovered or received under this Ordinance shall
be
monies. paid into the Colonial Treasury.
350

[For construction of Ordinance : see No. 12 of 1856.]
Preamble.
'The Lighting Rate.'
The Surveyor General to provide and fix lamps, &c., and the Superintendent of Police to keep them lighted.
Laws relating to removal or felony of fixtures and chattels, extended to lamps, irons, &c.
Wilful damage, how punishable.
Apprehension of offenders without warrants.
352

Carelessness or accidental damage.
Summary procedure before Justices.
Disposal of monies.

350

[For construction of Ordinance : see No. 12 of 1856.]
Preamble.
'The Lighting Rate.'
The Surveyor General to provide and fix lamps, &c., and the Superintendent of Police to keep them lighted.
Laws relating to removal or felony of fixtures and chattels, extended to lamps, irons, &c.
Wilful damage, how punishable.
Apprehension of offenders without warrants.
352

Carelessness or accidental damage.
Summary procedure before Justices.
Disposal of monies.

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