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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH AUGUST, 1869.
From and after the date of this Notification the only Jetties or Piers within District No. 5 of the City of Victoria, at which public Boats shall be permitted to ply for hire after 8 P.M., shall be the Government Wharf, and the Wharves known as Pedder's Wharf, and Gibb's Wharf.
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1869.
NOTICE.
An attempt will be made from this date to enforce the ordinary "Rule of the Road" amongst Street Chairs in Queen's Road, more especially in the evening. It is requested that all Persons riding in Chairs or driving vehicles will co-operate with the Police by observing the Rule of keeping the left side.
Registrar General's Office, 7th August, 1869.
No. 89.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.
The following Act of the Imperial Parliament, relative to the Transportation of Convicts from the Colonies, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th July, 1869.
A.D. 1869.
Short title.
Definition of terms: "Colony : "
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Legislative body."
Sect. 4. of 6 G. 4. c.. 69 repealed.
Prisoners may be re-
CHAPTER 10.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
An Act for authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from one Colony to another for the purposes of
Punishment.
[13th May 1869.]
Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the removal of prisoners from one Colony to another for the purposes of punishment:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869." 2. For the purposes of this Act-
The term colony" shall not include any place within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, or within such territories as may for the time being be vested in Her Majesty by virtue of any Act of Parliament for the government of India, but shall include any plantation, territory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Majesty's dominions, and subject to the same local government; and for the purposes of this Act all plantations, territories, and settlements under a central legislature shall be deemed to be one colony under the same local government:
"shall include the officer for the time being administering the government of The term (6
governor any colony:
The term legislative body" shall mean any house of assembly or other body of persons having legislative powers in the colony, and where such body of persons consists of two separate houses it shall include both houses, and where there are local legislative bodies as well as a central legislative body shall mean the central legislative body only.
3. The fourth section of the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for punishing offences committed by transports kept to labour in the colonies, and better regulating the powers of justices of the peace in New South Wales," is hereby repealed, except so far as may be necessary for supporting or continuing any proceedings taken thereunder. 4. Any two colonies may, with the sanction of an order of Her Majesty in Council, agree for the moved from one colony removal of any prisoners under sentence or order of transportation, imprisonment, or penal servitude from to another for purpo- one of such colonies to the other for the purpose of their undergoing in such other colony the whole or any ses of punishment.
part of their punishment, and for the return of such prisoners to the former colony at the expiration of their punishment, or at such other period as may be agreed upon, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may seem good to the said colonies.
Removal of prisoners to be by warrant.
The sanction of the order of Her Majesty in Council may be obtained, in the case of a colony having a legislative body, on an address of such body to Her Majesty, and in the case of any colony not having a legislative body, on an address of the governor of such colony; and such sanction shall be in force as soon as such order in council has been published in the colony to which it relates.
The agreement of any one colony with another shall for the purposes of this Act be testified by a writing under the hand of the governor of such colony.
5. Where the sanction of Her Majesty has been given to any such agreement as aforesaid relating to the removal of prisoners from one colony to another for the purpose of undergoing their punishment, any prisoners under sentence or order of transportation, imprisonment, or penal servitude may be removed from such one colony to the other under the authority of a warrant signed by the governor, and addressed to the master of any ship, or any other person or persons; and the person or persons to whom such warrant is addressed shall have power to convey the prisoner therein named to such other colony, and to deliver him when there into the custody of any authority designated in such warrant, or empowered by the gover- nor of such last-mentioned colony to receive such prisoner.