JULY 10, 1858.]
The Hongkong Government - Gazettę,
Strangers to the Port may deem it objectionable to run to leeward for a confined anchorage, and those who have not got a Pilot had
stand out again until one can be obtained, unless they feel confident of being able to take in sail smartly and bring up quickly. Between Grotto Point and Middle Head, and due west of North Head, lies Middle Harbour, an arm of the sea extending several miles North West direction. It is open to the eastward, and not navigable for vessels drawing more than 9 feet, a bar of that depth running Neither does Hunter's Bay, situated at the entrance to Middle Harbour, afford good anchorage, being open to easterly and the bottom foul.
TIDES.
its mouth.
The tides in the Harbour of Port Jackson do not run with great velocity, the maximum rate of the ebb being two, and of the flood one half knots. Their course is generally that of mid-channel, except at the entrance, where the ebb tide, running strong near the North leaves a considerable space of slack water to the southward, of which vessels working in can avail by tacking to the southward when- the Floating Light Ship is seen open of the Inner South Head. The times of high water, full, and change, are at the Heads 8h. 15m., a Sydney, 8h. 30.; rise and fall 6 feet.
All Bearings herein given are magnetic, and the Soundings those at low water spring tides.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. 11 of 1858.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BowaING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the May of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative uncil of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.
[6th July, 1858.]
Be it enacted ordained and by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. All Additions to Drafts on Bankers within the meaning of Ordinance No. 3 of 1857, shall be Additions to Cheques feemed to be (by whomsoever and at whatsoever Time the said Additions may be made) part of the on Bankers. Drafts themselves, for the purpose of the payment thereof respectively; and any Cancellation or Erasure
such Additions, and likewise any Alteration thereof (except for the mere purpose of filling up any
Banks therein), shall be deemed a Forgery of the said Drafts respectively.
II. A Person obtaining by fraud or false pretence the acceptance of a Bill of Exchange (whether Acceptances obtain- awn by himself or any other Person) from a Third Party, shall (whether the said Bill so accepted remain ed by fraud or false his hands or not) be deemed to have obtained a valuable Security by fraud, or (as the case may be) false pretence, and Drafts tence, within the meaning of the Laws in force for the repression of the said Offences; and Persons &c., upon Persons who have stopped payment, dulently obtaining Monies or Chattels upon or by means of a draft Order or Warrant addressed to any &c. Dereon, Society, Company, or Firm, who, to the knowledge of the Persons so obtaining the said Monies or attels, at the time of obtaining the same, have stopped payment or suspended business, shall be deemed to have obtained the said Monies or Chattels by a false pretence, and shall be punishable accordingly.
III. No Person shall act as a Lender of Money to an amount being less than Five Hundred current
Pawnbrokers' and
1 Mars in any one_transaction upon deposit of Goods and Chattels, unless he be then the actual holder Auctioneers' Licenses. za Pawnbroker's License, or as â Public Salesman, unless he be then the actual holder of an Auctioneer's License.
To be granted by
IV. Every such License shall be granted by and at the Discretion of His Excellency in Executive Kancil, on such Conditions, touching Fees or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet; and the same shall the Governor in Coun-
Jure for One Year only, but may be renewed at the like Discretion from Year to Year.
V. No such Lender of Money as aforesaid shall, during the continuance of his said License, carry on
* other Trade or Occupation in his place of business as such Lender.
cil.
No Lender to carry on another trade.
Names and business
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VI. He shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English Letters and Chinese Cracters, over the Door of his said place of business, his Name at length, and after his Name the of Lenders to be paint-
Pawnbroker" (or "Pawnbrokers" if he be the Member of a Fim of such Lenders.) VII. He shall, whensoever thereunto required by the Superintendent of Police, or any Inspector Inspection of Books, Police, or by any other Member of the Police Force bearing a written Order in that behalf under the &c., by Police. Lord of the said Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the Party so requiring him all or any Goods
4 Chattels pledged or deposited with him on loan of Monies, and all Books and Papers relating to the
VIII. Over and above the principal Monies lent upon any Goods or Chattels, pawned or pledged Interest on Loans. th the Lender, he may demand, receive, and take from the Person applying to redeem the said Goods or tattels, before re-delivering the same to such Person, Interest upon the said principal Monies for the th, and every fractional Part of a Month, after such rate as shall have been agreed upon at the time of the making of the said Loan ;-which said principal Monies and Interest shall be taken in full satisfaction all Charges for or incident to the Loan to which the same relate; yet so as that the First Month's terest shall be deemed to be due on the First day of the First Month, unless redemption be applied for within the First three Days thereof.
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No further profit to
IX. Every such Loan shall be bonâ fide made without deduction out of the amount expressed to be
and no Profit or Interest over and above the Rate aforesaid shall be on any pretext received or be made. manded.
Before any Monies shall be advanced on any such Loan as aforesaid, the Lender thereof shall enter A General Book to **cause to be entered in a Book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book," be kept, and Entries
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for, true, and regular Statement of the Nature and Description, and also of the actual Condition, of the made, and numbered.
or Chattels upon which the said Loan shall be made, and of the exact Amount in Value of the said
, and of the exact rate of interest thereon, and of the Name, Description, and Abode of the Borrower, of the Number (if any) of the Place and the Name (if any) of the Street of such his Abode (dis- ishing him, if the Occupier of his Place of Abode by the Chinese Characters I and by the English. O, and if only an Inmate thereof by the Chinese Characters and by the English Letter I); also of the like particulars (distinguished in like manner) of the Name, Description, and Abode of such
Person (if any) as the said Borrower shall represent to the said Lender to be the true Owner of sid Goods and Chattels; and lastly, of the Day of the English Month and Year upon which the said shall be made: yet so as that, before any of the said Entries shall be made in the said Book, the Lender shall to the best of his ability ascertain from the said Borrower the truth thereof respectively: And every Loan, the particulars whereof shall have been so entered as aforesaid, shall be numbered in