Extension of Mer- chant Shipping Act as to Salvage.
Prizes from Pirates in China Seas.
Stipendiary Magis-.
trates.
Retrospective effect
The Hongkong Government Gazelte.
HONGKONG.
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[March 28, 1857.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIA REGINE.
No. 5 of 1857.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Salvage and Prize in certain cases.
[25th March, 1857.] Be it ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. So much of the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," as relates to Salvage, is hereby extended to this 'Colony, and to the Courts and Justices thereof, and to all questions of Salvage coming before them, and wheresoever arising.
II. Where the value of any single Boat, or (in the case of the capture and bringing in of more Boats than one) the collective value of any Boats, heretofore or to be hereafter captured from Pirates in the China Seas and brought into port by the captors, shall not (including the property aboard) exceed Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, it shall be lawful for the Court of Petty Sessions or a Stipendiary Magistrate to hear and adjudicate upon all questions touching the same, whereof the Vice-Admiralty Court hath or shall have cognisance, and to condemn, acquit, or restore, the same accordingly, and to award or refuse Costs and other expenses, as shall be deemed reasonable aud fit; and no Costs or expenses shall be allowed by the Vice-Admiralty Court to any Person suing there, in respect of any such capture, except in cases arising under the Act of Parliament of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Queen, chapter Twenty-six; and also except in cases where the said Admiralty Court shall be of opinion that a difficult question of law was involved.
III. A Stipendiary Magistrate shall have and exercise the same Powers and Duties as, by the said extended portions of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," are conferred or imposed on two Justices of the Peace.
IV. All Acts and things heretofore done, which, if done after the passing hereof, would be valid, are hereby made valid and lawful for all purposes.
Steam for
Passed · the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 25th Day of March, 1857.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,
& SOUTHAMPTON
Або
BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.
T"
HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVI- GATION COMPANY'S Steam-ship “ERIN,” Captain Rayley, with Her Majesty's Mails, l'assen- gers, Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 30th Murch, at 2 P.M.
CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M, on the 28th; SPECIE until Noon on the 29th; and PARCELS nntil 2 r.. on the 29th.
For Particulars regarding FREIGHt and Passage, pply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.
CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE
REQUIRED.
A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.
ROBT. S. WALKER,
Superintendent.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 25th March, 1857.
H
NOTICE.
IS Excellency the MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FOR FRANCE IN CHINA, has been pleased to appoint, pending the approval of His Imperial Ma- jesty's Government, on and from the 15th instant, D. REMI, Esquire, French Vice-Consul at Amoy. By Order,
Legation of France in China, Macro, 16th March, 1857.
KLECZKOWSKI.
In the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.
ALL
indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.
H. MAGNIAC,
31. A. MACLEOD,} Administrators, Hongkong, 24th March, 1857.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. WHAJAM PUSTAU and CHARLES BRO
DERSEN, Plgi»liffs,
Between
W
and
Albert Berenhart, Defendant, HEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court, at the unit of the above-named WILLIAM PUSTAU and CHARLES BRO- ALBERT DERSON, against the above-named BERENHART, to recover the sum of £2407.19.2., the amount of 3 several Bills of Exchange drawn by the Defendant, and made payable to the Plaintiffs with Exchange and re-exchange thereon, and it being alleged that the said ALBERT Berenhart does not reside within this Island or its dependencies, a W'rit of Foreign Attachment has been issued, returnable on the Thirteenth day of April, 1857, wherein THOMAS LARKIN WALKER, the Acting Surveyor General of the Colony of Hongkong, R. B. SHERARD, WILLIAM PUSTAU, and CHARLES BRODERSEN, as the General Attorneys and Agents of the anid De- fendant, and YORICK JONES MURROW and JAMES STEPHENSON, all respectively of Victoria, Hongkong, are Garnishees: Notice is hereby given thereof, and that if, at any time before final judgment in this action, the said ALBERT BERENDART, or any person on his behalf, will give the Security and Notice and File the Appearance or Plea required by the Ordin- ance of this Island, intituled, “An Ordinance to pro- "vide for and regulate Process in Actions at Law, against Persons absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dissolved.
Dated this Twenty-fourth Day of March, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.
N
AMBROSE PARSONS,
Plaintiffs' Attorney. SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th February, 1857. TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. OTICE is hereby given, that Persons willing to CONTRACT for the EXECUTION OF THE SEVERAL WORKS—in constructing a New SEA WALL, from Marine Lot No. 104 Eastward, to join the Coast Road along the Parade, and Westward, from Marine Lot No. 101 to join the Sea Wall of Pedder's Wharf; in forming the BOWRING PRAVA ; in Filling in the Ground between such New Road and
and in continuing the several Culverts and Drains, &c., &c., may inspect the DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, and CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT at this Office, on and after Monday, the 16th instant, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.
THOS. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General,
JOHN BOWRING.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In Equity.
Chief Justice.
In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON
deceased. Robert Calver(rawford, Complainant,
and
Between
WILLIAM RAYMOND Gingell, Defendant. DURSUANT to a Decree or Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, in its Equitable Jurisdic- tion, ninde in a cause wherein ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD is now Complainant, and WILLIAM RAYMOND GINGELL is Defendant, the Creditors of ROBERT JACKSON, formerly of Amoy, in the Empire of China, and Inte of Foo-chow-foo, in the Empire of China, deceased, who died on, in, or about the month
of July, 1854, are by themselves or their Soliciton, on or before the Tirentieth day of June next ensuing, as far as those resident within this Jurisdiction or the Empire of China, and on or before the Twenty first day of September next ensuing, as far as those resident without this Jurisdiction or the Empire of China, to come in and prove their Debts or Cinims before His Honour the CHIEF JUSTICE OF HONG KONG, at his Chambers in the Court House. Victoria, Hongkong; or in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree.
Dated the Twentieth day of March, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.
FREDERICK S. IIUFFUM, Judge's Clerk.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, JR, Esquire, late of the Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship chandler, deceased.
OTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Admi-
nistration of the Estate and Effects of the abore named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DoUGLAS LAPRAIK.
G. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator,
Dated 13th March, 1857.
THE
NOTICE.
E undersigned requests that all PARCELS and LETTERS to his address, may be delivered to NORMAN R. MASSON, Esquire.
W. II. ALEXANDER.
Hongkong, 13th March, 1857.