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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST APRIL, 1860.
Trustees fraudulent-
ly disposing of Pro-
demeanor.
I. If any Person being a Trustee of any Property for the Benefit, either wholly or perty guilty of a Mis- partially, of some other Person, or for any public or charitable Purpose, shall, with In- tent to defraud, convert, or appropriate the same or any Part thereof to or for his own Use or Purposes, or shall, with Intent aforesaid, otherwise dispose of or destroy such Property or any Part thereof, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
lently selling, &c.,
Bankers, &c.,frauda- II. If any Person being a Banker, Merchant, Broker, Attorney, or Agent, and be- Property intrusted to ing intrusted for safe Custody with the Property of any other Person, shall, with Intent their Care, guilty of to defraud, sell, negotiate, transfer, pledge, or in any Manner convert or appropriate to or for his own Use such Property or any l'art thereof, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
Misdemeanor.
Persons under
III. If any Person intrusted with any Power of Attorney for the Sale or Transfer Powers of Attorney of any Property shall fraudulently sell or otherwise convert such Property or any Part
thereof to his own Use or Benefit, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
fraudulently selling
Property guilty of
Misdemeanor,
Bailces fraudulent-
ly converting Proper-
IV. If any Person, being a Bailee of any Property, shall fraudulently take or con- ty to their own Use Vert the same to his own Use, or the Use of any Person other than the Owner thereof, although he shall not break Bulk or otherwise determine the Bailment, he shall be guilty of Larceny.
guilty of Larceny.
or Public Company
Directors, &c., of V. If any Person, being a Director, Member, Public Officer, or Manager of any any Body Corporate Body Corporate or Public Company, shall fraudulently take or apply, for his own Use, fraudulently appro- any of the Money or other Property of such Body Corporate or Public Company, he priating Property; shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
Or keeping fraudu- lent Accounts;
Or wilfully destroy- ing Books, &c. ;
Or publishing fraudu- lent Statements, guilty of Misde-
ineanor.
Persons receiving Property fraudulent-
been so, guilty of
VI. If any Person being a Director, Public Officer, or Manager of any Body Cor- porate or Public Company, shall as such receive or possess himself of any of the Money or other Property of such Body Corporate or Public Company otherwise than in Pay- ment of a just Debt or Demand, and shall, with Intent to defraud, omit to make or to cause or direct to be made a full and true Entry thereof in the Books and Accounts of such Body Corporate or Public Company, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
VII. If any Director, Manager, Public Officer, or Member of any Body Corporate or Public Company shall, with Intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any of the Books, Papers, Writings, or Securities belonging to the Body Corporate or Public Company of which he is a Director or Manager, Public Officer, or Member, or make or concur in the making of any false Entry, or any material Omission in any Book of Ac- count or other Document, he shall be guilty of Misdemeanor.
VIII. If any Director, Manager, or Public Officer of any Body Corporate or Public Company shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publish- ing, any written Statement or Account which he shall know to be false in any material Particular, with Intent to deceive or defraud any Member, Shareholder, or Creditor of such Body Corporate or Public Company, or with Intent to induce any Person to be- come a Shareholder or Partner therein, or to intrust or advance any Money or Property to such Body Corporate or Public Company, or to enter into any Security for the Bene- fit thereof, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
IX. If any Person shall receive any Chattel, Money, or valuable Security which ly disposed of, know- shall have been so fraudulently disposed of as to render the Party disposing thereof ing the same to have guilty of a Misdemeanor under any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, knoying the Misdemeanor. same to have been so fraudulently disposed of, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and may be indicted and convicted thereof, whether the Party guilty of the principal Mis- demeanor shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to Justice.
Punishment for a
X. Every Person found guilty of a Misdemeanor under this Ordinance, shall be Misdemeanor under liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of this Ordinance. Three Years, or to suffer such other Punishment, by Imprisonment for not more than
Two Years with or without Hard Labour, or by Fine, as the Court shall award.
tions in any Proceed-
No Person exempt XI. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall enable or entitle any Person to re- from answering Ques- fuse to make a full and complete Discovery by Answer to any Bill in Equity or to ings in the Supreme answer any Question or Interrogatory in any Civil Proceeding in the Supreme Court of Court; Evidence not Hongkong, and whether in the Common Law or Equitable or Insolvency Jurisdiction cutions under this Or- thereof; but no Answer to any such Bill, Question, or Interrogatory shall be admissible in Evidence against such Person in any Proceeding under this Ordinance.
admissible in Prose-
dinance.
No Remedy at Law er in Equity shall be affected.
XII. Nothing in this Ordinance contained, nor any Proceeding, Conviction, or Judg ment to be had or taken thereon against any Person under this Ordinance, shall prevent,
lessen, or in Offence aga but no Con Law or Suit or prejudice its Object tl
XIII. but not incl the Sanction
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quitted of a
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