THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.
and not less than Five Years or to be transported from the Colony for any Term not exceeding Ten Years and not less than Five Years.
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board a Junk, &c.,
unable to satisfy the
complicity.
(8.) If any Person shall have been brought or found within the Colony Being seen within of Hongkong who shall have been seen within Twenty-one Days after the Twenty-one Days on commission of an Act of Piracy on board a Junk, Vessel, or Boat, which Junk, proved to have taken Vessel, or Boat shall be proved to have taken part in such Act of Piracy and who tie to satisfy the shall be unable to satisfy the Court that he was not on board such Junk, Vessel, Court as to non- or Boat, at the time of the commission of such Act of Piracy or, if on board at such time that he was not ou board with his own consent or with the knowledge that an Act of Piracy was about to be committed, such Person shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude in the Colony for any Term not exceeding Ten Years and not less than Five Years or to be Transported from the Colony for any Term not exceeding Ten Years and not less than Five Years or to be Imprisoned for any Terin not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labor.
board a Junk, &c.,
Violence or Piracy
unable to satisfy the
(9.) If any Person shall have been brought or found within the Colony of Being seen within Hongkong who shall have been seen within Twenty-one Days after the Com- Twenty-one Days on mission of an Act of Piracy with Violence or Piracy with Murder on board a proved to have taken Junk, Vessel, or Boat, which shall be proved to have taken part in such Act of Putin Piracy with Piracy with Violence or Piracy with Murder, and who shall be unable to satisfy with Murder and the Court that he was not on board such Junk, Vessel, or Boat at the Time of Court as to non- the Commission of such Act of Piracy with Violence or Piracy with Murder, or if complicity. on board at such Time that he was not on board with his own consent or with the knowledge that an Act of Piracy with Violence or Piracy with Murder was about to be committed, such Person shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude in the Colony. for Life, or for any Term not less than Fourteen Years or to be Transported from the Colony for Life, or for any Term not less than Fourteen Years.
and unable to satisfy
(10.) If any Person shall be brought or found within the Colony of Hongkong Being seen on board a who shall within Twenty-one Days previously have been seen on board any Junk, Piratical Junk, &c., Vessel, or Boat, equipped for the Purposes of Piracy, and who shall be unable to the Court as to non- satisfy the Court that he was not on board such Junk, Vessel, or Boat with his complicity. own consent or with the knowledge that the same was equipped for the Purposes of Piracy, such Person shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years: Provided always that if Juvenile Offenders after the coming into Operation of this Ordinance, any l'erson shall be convicted how to be dealt with. of any Offence punishable hereunder whose Age shall not in the Opinion of the Court exceed the Age of Sixteen Years, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the Court in addition to or in lieu of the Sentence passed or omitted to be passed for his Offence to direct such Offender to be sent at the Expiration of such Sentence, or forthwith, as the Case may be, to any Reformatory School established in this Colony (if the Directors or Managers thereof shall be willing to receive such Offender) and to be there detained for a Period not less than Öne Year and not exceeding Five Years: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the said Court in addition to any punishment hereby imposed for any Offence against this Ordinance, to order any Male Party or Parties whose age in the opinion of the Court shall exceed Sixteen Years convicted under this Ordinance, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly flogged in the manner and subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed and imposed with respect to flogging under Ordinance No. 12 of 1865; and before being discharged from Custody such Parties shall be marked with some indelible mark in such manner and in such part of the body as the Governor in Council may from time to time direct.
VIII The Official Members of the said Court shall take Precedence of the Unofficial Precedence. Members, and the Official Members shall, when sitting in Court take Precedence between themselves according to the Order in which their respective Offices are enumerated in the last Section, and the Unofficial Members according to the Priority of their respective Appointments.
IX. The Court shall not be competent to try any Case unless Three Members Quorum, at the least of such Court shall be present at the Sitting of such Court, and of these Three Members, One, at the least, shall be the Chief Justice or the Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and One at the least shall be a Naval Officer.