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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1869. -
criminal Charge; any public and indecent Exposure of the Person;
of
any public Selling, or exposing for public Sale or to public View, any obscene Book, Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition, it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the Offender to be imprisoned for any Term now warranted by Law, and alsó, in its Discretion, to be kept to Hard Labor during the whole or any Part of such Term of Imprisonment.
of
VIII. The Chief Justice may in his Discretion reserve for further Crown Caser Consideration any Question of Law which may arise upon the Trial reserved.
any Information and in Case the Person tried shall be convicted, may postpone Judgment until such Question shall have been con- sidered and decided, and in the meanwhile may commit the Person convicted to Prison or take a Recognizance of Bail with One or Two sufficient Sureties and in such Sum as he shall think fit con- ditioned to appear at such Time or Times as he shall direct and to receive Judgment; and upon such further Consideration of the Question so reserved as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to affirm or quash the Conviction.
to re-open a Case com-
IX. Whenever any Person charged before a Magistrate with Power to any Crime or Offence shall be committed for. Trial at the Supreme Magistrate Court and the Attorney General shall be of Opinion that further Investigation is required before such Trial, or that the Case is mitted for One which should be determined in a summary Manner by & Trial in Magistrate or by Two Magistrates sitting together under the certain Cases. Provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1863, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General to direct that the original Depositions be returned to the committing Magistrate who may thereupon re-open the Case and deal with it in all Respects as if such Person had not been committed for Trial, and if the Case be One which may be tried in a summary Manner by the Magistrate or by Two Magis- trates sitting together, it may, if thought expedient, be determined accordingly.
certain Cases.
X. Whenever any Person who shall have been committed to Bail on Prison by the Coroner charged by the Verdict of the Coroner's Committal by Jury with the Crime of Murder or Manslaughter shall also be Coroner in charged before a Magistrate with the same Crime, it shall be law- ful for the Magistrate, in Case he shall admit such Person to Bail upon such Charge, to order the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol to discharge such Person from Custody under the Coroner's Com- mittal, and such Person shall be discharged accordingly.
XI. The Registrar of the Supreme Court for the Time being Master of the shall ex officio be "Master of the Crown Office" within this Crown Office. Colony.
XII. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 3 of 1865 shall be Ordinance to construed together and for all requisite Purposes be deemed and be construed taken as One Ordinance, and nothing therein contained shall affect with No. 3 of any other Form of Criminal Procedure which may now by Law exist in the Colony.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 24th Day of September, 1889.
1865.
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L. D'ALMADA É CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
.HONGKONG
ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO
VICTORIA REGINE.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 3 of 1869.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to empower His Excellency the Governor in Council to grant Licenses for the Distillation of Spirits and the Rectifying and Compounding thereof within the Colony.
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[24th September, 1869.]
Title.
HEREAS by Ordinance No. 8 of 1844 the Distillation of Preamble.
Spirits and the Rectifying and Compounding thereof within
the Colony are absolutely prohibited, and it is expedient that the same should be permitted subject to certain Conditions and Restric- tions: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-