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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH JANUARY, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 133.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby dissolved, ! given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
HONGKONG.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 1 of 1858.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary 36 dre€ Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative
med of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure.
[11th January, 1858.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Ifficiating (a pislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. All Statements which need not be proved shall be omitted from Informations and Indictments, and the Substance of every Charge shall be therein expressed without prolixity.
11. Every Information or Indictment shall continue to be signed as heretofore, but shall, with such ¡H CROSS Mo«lifications as may be necessary to meet the Facts of each Case, be in the following Form as near as
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The Attorney General charges A.B., with the Murder of C.D., [or with having robbed, or stolen
from the person of C.D., or with a Burglary in a Dwelling-house, or as the case may be] at-E. - ' on the
Day of
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Unnecessary State-
ments forbidden.
Forms of Informa→
tion;
And if there be more than One Count, then the Second, and every subsequent Count, if any, shall, with and second Counts.
J. GIBS que hác Modifications, be in the following Form as near as may be :-
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And also with Piracy in making a Revolt on board of the Vessel F, or as the case may be, [or set- ting Fire to a Dwelling-House, or as the case may be,] at E. aforesaid [or as the case may be], on the Day and Year last aforesaid [or as the case may be.]'
1. It shall not be competent to any Prisoner or Defendant to object by Demurrer to any Informa- Demurrers or Objec-- nor Indictment, except upon the ground that the same doth not set forth a sufficient Charge in Law; and tious for lack of Forms
the hearing of every such Demurrer, and also upon any Application to arrest Judgment, the Court shall, not to be allowed. thout regarding any mere Imperfection, Omission, Defect, or Lack of Form, determine the very Right or Copies, Tar Matter in Law, according as the same shall appear unto the said Court, and give Judgment accordingly.
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IV. Save as by this Ordinance is provided, the Rules of Pleading and Practice in Criminal Cases shall Existing Rules of enty Cente 4tinue to be observed as the same existed at the Time of the passing hereof: And no Ordinance here- Pleading and Practice..
After to be passed for extending to this Colony any Imperial Enactment relating to Crimes or Offences, shall Provision for further De interpreted to repeal or vary any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, unless the intention to repeal or Statutes to this Co- *ity the same be expressed in such future Ordinance.
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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 11th Day of January, 1858.
L D'ALMADA E Castro,
Clerk of Councils..
JOHN BOWRING.
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