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If not obeyed, he may abate such Lights.
[M. S. A. 1254,
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Recovery of Penalties.
Governor may
XIV. If any Owner or Person served with such Notice, as aforesaid, neglects for a Period of Seven Days to extinguish or effectually screen the Light or Fire therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbor Master, by his Servants or Workmen, to enter in the Place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extin- guish such Fire or Light doing no unnecessary Damage; and all Expenses incurred by the Harbor Master in such Extinction may be recovered from such Person or Owner as aforesaid in the same way as Penalties are hereby declared to be recoverable.
Recovery of Penalties.
XV. All Penalties incurred under this Ordinance may be recovered by and under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
Regulations.
XVI. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make make Regula- and publish Regulations, and from Time to Time to vary the same for the better and more effectual carrying into effect the Provisions of this Ordinance.
tions.
Repeal of Sec. XVII. Section XIX of Ordinance No. 1 of 1862 is hereby 19 of No. 1 of repealed.
1862. Suspending Clause.
XVIII. This Ordinance shall not come into Operation until Her Majesty's Confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
Statement of Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance is introduced to empower the Governor to erect the necessary Lighthouses for lighting the approaches to the Harbor of Hongkong, and to raise funds by means of a loan for such purpose. The great and progressive increase of late years in steam navigation has rendered more urgent a want which the interests of commerce have long felt, and which this enactment is meant to supply in the readiest and most effectual way open to the Legislature.
As these lights will not benefit to any very appreciable extent any ships, but those bound for this Port, it does not seem necessary to resort to the process provided by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1855, for collecting dues for the use of such lights in British Ports other than this. The provisions for the collection of dues are therefore made altogether local, and the Ordinance by Section VI leaves it in the hands of the Governor in Council to fix such dues as may be in the first instance deemed necessary to cover the original cost of construction and subsequently the working expenses only. The estimates which have been made for the construction of the Lighthouses when compared with the average amount of tonnage annually coming into this Harbor give reason to antici- pate that such dues will impose but a slight burden on comirerce.
Sections VII and VIII exempt all men of war of whatever nationality from the payment of light dues, and empower the Governor by order in Council to exempt any other Ships or classes of Ships from such dues, or to make arrangements for annual payments.
Sections IX to XIV inclusive with reference to the method of collecting such dues, for preventing damage to the lights, &c., and, the use of false lights, are taken from "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and require no special explanation.
By Section XVI the Governor in Council is empowered to make such regulations as will in practice be found necessary for the working of the Ordinance.
THOS. C. HAYLLAR, Acting Attorney General.
Tide.
Preamble.
Repealing
Clause.
Persons by Magistrate.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for the Oral Examination of Prisoners.
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, 1873.]
HEREAS is is expedient to further amend the Law of
Frisoners: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. Ordinance No. 3 of 1872, is hereby repealed.
Examination of II. Upon the Investigation or Hearing by any Stipendiary accused Magistrate of any Case in which any Person is accused of the Commission of any Criminal Offence, the Magistrate may, from See Indian Time to Time at any Stage of the Inquiry, and without previously Criminal Pro- warning the accused Person, examine him, and put such Questions cedure Cole. to him as he thinks necessary.
(Act X, 1872),
Sec. 193.