THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13 MAY, 1865.
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by Fraud to execute Deeds and other Ius-
truments.
74. Whosoever, with Intent to defraud or injure any other Person shall by any false Inducing Persons yotence fraudulently cause or induce any other Person to execute, make, accept, on- or destroy the whole or any Part of any valuable Security, or to write, impress, atix his Name or the Name of any other Person, or of any Company, Firin, or Co- etnership.
or the Seal of any Body Corporate, Company, or Society, upon any Paper Parchment, in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used dealt with as a valuable Security, shall be, guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being con- ed thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servi- e for the Term of Three Years, or to he imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
As to receiving Stolen Goods.
where
the Principal is guilty of Felony.
75. Whosoever shall receive any Chattel, Money, valuable Security, or other Receiving Poperty whatsoever, the stealing, taking, extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise posing whereof shall amount to a Felony cither at Common Law or by virtue of this alinance, knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, bezzled, or disposed of, shall be guilty of Felony, and may be indicted and convicted, her as an Accessory after the Fact or for a substantive Felony, and in the latter case ether the principal Felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall shall not be amenable to Justice; and every such Receiver, howsoever convicted, shall liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term t exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or hout Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping: Provided, that no Person, howsoever tried for receiving as aforesaid,
all be liable to be prosecuted a Second Time for the same Offence.
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· 76. In any Indictment containing a charge of feloniously stealing any Property, it hall be lawful to add a Count or several Counts for feloniously receiving the same or Ly Part or Parts thereof knowing the same to have been stolen;--and in any Indictment feloniously receiving any Property knowing it to have been stolen, it shall be lawful add a Count for feloniously stealing the same:-and where any such Indictment all have been preferred and found against any Person, the Attorney General shall not put to his Election, but it shall be lawful for the Jury who shall try the same to and a Verdict of Guilty, either of stealing the property, or of receiving the same, or way Part or Parts thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen--and if such halictment shall have been preferred and found against Two or more Persons, it shall lawful for the Jury who shall try the same to find all or any of the said Persons ilty either of stealing the Property or of receiving the same, or any Part or Parts thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, or to find one or more of the said Persons Guilty of stealing the Property, and the other or others of them, Guilty of ceiving the same or any Part or Parts thereof knowing the same to have been stolen
for
Indictment stealing and receiving.
the same Indictment
77. Whenever any Property whatsoever shall have been stolen, taken, extorted, Separate Receivers ained, embezzled, or otherwise disposed of in such a Manner as to amount to a may be included in ony either at Common Law or by virtue of this Ordinance, any Number of Receivers in the absence of the different Times of such Property, or of any Part or Parts thereof, may be charged Principal. with substantive Felonies in the same Indictment, and may be tried together, withstanding that the principal Felon shall not be included in the same Indictment, shall not be in Custody or amenable to Justice.
be convicted of sepa-
78. If upon the Trial of any Two or more Persons indicted for jointly receiving Persous indicted for Property it shall be proved that One or more of such Persons separately received jointly receiving may Part or Parts of such Property, it shall be lawful for the Jury to convict, upon rately receiving.
Indictment, such of the said Persons as shall be proved to have received any Part Parts of such Property.
the Principal has been
79. Whosoever shall receive any Chattel, Money, valuable Security, or other Receiving where perty whatsoever, the stealing, taking, obtaining, converting, or disposing whereof guilty of a Misdemea made a Misdemeanor by this Ordinance, knowing the same to have been unlawfully or.
en, taken, obtained, converted, or disposed of, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and be indicted and convicted thereof, whether the Person guilty of the principal demeanor shall or shall not have been previously convicted thereof, or shall or shall be amenable to Justice; and every such Receiver, being convicted thereof, shall be Be at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Peual Servitude for any Term not creding Seven Years and not less than Three Years,-or to be imprisoned for any