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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND APRIL, 1865.
Đ & lạ Việt, đi, repealed.
Period of Act coming into operation.
4. The Act, Chapter Ninety-one, of the Ninth and Teuth Years of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to continue certain Patent Commissions until the Exhibition of the Commissions revoking them, is hereby repealed.
5. This Act, shall take effect in each of Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions so soon as the same shall be proclaimed therein by the Officer administering the Government thereof.
Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, being the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong, and in pursuance of instructions in that behalf received from the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, do, on this Twentieth Day of April, 1865, hereby proclaim the said Act as provided in the Fifth Section thereof, and the same is hereby proclaimed and takes effect in the Colony of Hongkong henceforward accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th Day of April, 1865.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 2nd February last, is published for general information.
By Order,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 21st April, 1865.
Title.
Preamble.
Accessories before
as Principals.
L. D'ALMADA É CASTRO, Clerk of Councils,
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to Accessories to, and Abettors of, Indictable Offences.
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1865.]
Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Enactinents in Force in this Colony relating to Accessories to, and Abettors of, Indictable Offences; Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
As to Accessories before the Fact.
1. Whosoever shall become an Accessory before the Fact to any Felony, whether Fact may be tried &c., the same be a Felony at Common Law or by virtue of any Ordinance passed or to be passed, may be indicted, tried convicted, and punished in all respects as if he were a principal Felon,
Accessories before Fact may be indicted
stantive Feluns.
2. Whosoever shall counsel, procure, or command any other Person to commit as such or as Sub-any Felony, whether the same be a Felony at Common Law or by virtue of any Ordinance passed or to be passed, shall be Guilty of Felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an Accessory before the Fact to the principal Felony, together with the principal Felon, or after the Conviction of the principal Felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a Substantive Felony whether the principal Felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to Justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any Accessory before the Fact to the saine Felony, if convicted as an Accessory, may be punished.
Accessories after
dicted as such or as
As to Accessories after the Fact.
3. Whosoever shall become an Accessory after the Fact to any Felony, whether the Fact may be in- the same be a Felony at Common Law or by virtue of any Ordinance passed or to be Substantive Felons. passed, may be indicted and convicted either as an Accessory after the Fact to the prin cipal Felony, together with the principal Felon, or after the Conviction of the princi