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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST JANUARY, 1863.
Repeal of 54 of Or- dinance No. 6 of 1862.
Crimes and Offences
gistrates.
I. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby repealed.
II. Each of the two Police Magistrates shall have power to hear, try and determine triable by Police Ma-in a summary manner any of the Crimes and Offences undermentioned committed within this Colony or its Dependencies or the Harbors thereof, that is to say: all Cases of Assault, Assault and Battery, Burglary, Larceny, knowingly receiving Stolen Property, knowingly uttering or having possession of with intent to utter counterfeit Silver or Copper Coin current in this Colony, where the amount of Property so stolen, received, uttered or passed with intent to utter does not exceed in value the sum of Fifty Dollars; all Cases of extorting Money or Property by threatening to accuse any Person of any indictable Offence or by Threats of injury to his, her, or their Person or Property; all Cases of Breach of Prison, Escape or Rescue, Combinations among Artisans, Workmen or Servants (domestic or otherwise) relating to their employ or work, Riotous Assem- blages with intent to injure any Person, House, Place or Furniture; and all attempts or Power to commit endeavours to commit any of the Crimes or Offences above enumerated: Provided always that should it appear at the hearing that any Case would be properly visited with a heavier punishment than this Ordinance permits, it shall be lawful, for the This Section to be Magistrate to commit the Casc for trial at the Supreme Court, and this Section shall be been $4 of No. 6 ofread and construed as if the same had originally been Section 4 of the said Ordinance.
III. Section 5 of the same Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby repcaled.
to Supreme Court.
construed as if it had
1862.
$5 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 repealed.
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Punishment.
may be added.
IV. It shall be competent for a Police Magistrate to award as punishment for any such Crime or Offence imprisonment in any Gaol of this Colony for any period not exceeding Six Calendar Months with or without Hard Labour or any Fine not exceed With or without ing Fifty Dollars or both Fine and Imprisonment not exceeding these limits, and it shall Solitary Confinement. be lawful for the Magistrate to direct any portion of such unprisonment not exceeding One Month in the whole to be Solitary, but that such Solitary Imprisonment shall not Corporal punishment exceed Fourteen consecutive Days, and further when any Male Offender shall be con- victed under the said or this Ordinance of either of the Offences next hereinafter specified a second time or under aggravated circumstances, that is to say: indecent Exposure of his Person, indecent Assault, Assault with intent to rob, Assault in a Brothel, Assault at or in connexion with any riotous Assemblage, or for malicious injury to Property, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order and direct that in addition to any other Punishment to which such Male Offender shall be sentenced that such Offender This section to be shall be Once or Twice publicly or privately whipped. This section shall be read and been $5 of No. 6 of construed as if the same had originally been Section 5 of the said Ordinance.
construed as if it had
1862.
Title.
Masters of Vessels
Mails.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. of 1863.
By His Excellency WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1862, intituled “An Ordinance to provide for the management and control of a Post Office for the Colony of Hongkong."
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Be it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
I. The Master or Person in charge of a Vessel about to leave the Harbour for any to receive and carry port or place other than ports or places on the Canton River or Macao, shall receive all such Mail Bags, Boxes, and Letters as the Postmaster General or other Officer of the Post Office shall bring to or on board such Vessel and shall give a receipt for the same in the form prescribed in Schedule C. hereto annexed, and shall duly deliver the same respectively to the Postmaster or other person having charge of the Mails at the port or place to which such Bags, Boxes, or Letters are directed. In case any such Master or other person shall refuse or wilfully neglect to receive any such Bag, Box, or Letter or in case he shall wilfully neglect to carry or to deliver any such Bag, Box, or Letter, he shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding
Dollars recoverable
Penalty.
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before a Police Magistrate, unless the Postmaster General on a representation made to him of the circumstances of the case shall consent with the sanction of His Excellency the Governor to waive the enforcement of such penalty. This section shall be read and