PUBLIC GAMING ORDINANCE

PUBLIC GAMING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1844.

Public Gaming.

No. 14 of 1844.

Axe Ordinance for the suppression of Public Gaming in the Colony 'of

Hongkong,

[10th June, 1844.

WHEREIS it is expedient to suppress the pernicious practice of public
gaming
in the Colony of Hongkong: Be it therefore enacted by His Egcellericy the
Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof,
that any
person who shall far gain or lucre keep any house, room, or place, boat,
vessel, or any

Penaiiyoaparson \ ,plaea on land or water, for public playing or
gambling, or shall permit any person to
keepfng.a - .' .

sanbitng bones.I within such house room boat vessel or any place on land
or water as aforesaid,

F-J shall forfeit a sum. not exceeding two hundred dollars on conviction
thereof in a

summary manner.

Penalty on 2, And be it enacted, that any person who shall use, haunt, or
be found within
person e haunting
gambling houses., such house, room, boat, vessel, or any place on land or
water as aforesaid, shall forfeit

Person acting as
master to be

Penalties to be
recovered
according to the
provisions of
Ordinance No. YO
of f814:

.a sum not exceeding fifty dollars on conviction thereof in a summary
meaner.

3. And be it enacted that the person appearing, or acting as master, or
as having
the care and management of any such house, room, or place as aforesaid,
shall be taken
to be the keeper thereof, and shall be liable as such to the penalty
aforesaid.

4. And be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for any Justice of
the Peace
or constable of the Police duly authorized by warrant of any Justice of
the Peace, to
enter and if necessary to break into any house, room, boat, vessel, or
any place either
on land or water, within which such Justice°of the Peace shall be
credibly informed
on oath, or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect
and believe
that public gambling or playing is, or has been commonly carried on, and
to arrest all
persons within such house, room, or place as aforekaid, and to seine all
tables, dice, or
,other implements of gambling, or which shall be used as such and also
all movies or
securities for money, which shall be in actual use for the purpose of
gambling, and which
said implements of gambling, and money, or securities for money, on
conviction of the
offender shall be and they are hereby declared to be forfeited to Her
Majesty the
Queen Her Heirs and Successors.

5. And be it enacted, that all penalties herein mentioned, shall be
recovered
levied and distributed on conviction of the offender before any
Magistrate of Police,
or any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by Ordinance No.
10 of 1844.

Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1'8f6.]
Title.
Preamble.
Penalty on person keeping a gambling house.
Penalty on persons haunting gambling houses.
Perosn acting as master to be liable to penalty.
Justice of the Peace or constable authorized by warrant to enter intohouse and seize implements of gaming money &c., which shall be forfeited.
Penalties to be recovered according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1814.

Title.
Preamble.
Penalty on person keeping a gambling house.
Penalty on persons haunting gambling houses.
Perosn acting as master to be liable to penalty.
Justice of the Peace or constable authorized by warrant to enter intohouse and seize implements of gaming money &c., which shall be forfeited.
Penalties to be recovered according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1814.

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