Extension of Mer-
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
HONGKONG.
[March 28, 1857.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIA REGINA.
No. 5 of 1857.
By His Excellency SIR Joux 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:-
I. So much of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," as relates to Salvage, is hereby extended to this chant Shipping Act as Colony, and to the Courts and Justices thereof, and to all questions of Salvage coming before them, and
wheresoever arising.
to Salvage.
Prizes from Pirates in China Seas.
Stipendiary Magis-.
trates.
Retrospective effect
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 and 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.
1II.
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.
JOHN BOWRING.
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;
Also,
BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVI- GATION COMPANY's Steam-ship “ERIN," Captain RAYLEY, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passen- 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 P.af. 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.
HIS
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, Macio, 16th March, 1857.
KLECZKOWSKI.
In the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.
LL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.
H. MAGNIAC, M. A. MACLEOD, ) Hongkong, 24th March, 1857.
Administrators,
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
WILLIAM PUSTAU and CHARLES BRO-
BERSEN, Plaintiffs,
Between
W |
and
ALBERT BERENHART, Defendant. HEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court, at the suit of the above-named WILLIAM PUSTAU and CHARLES BRO- DERSON, against the above-named ALBERT 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'ril 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 said 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 BERENHART, 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.
AMBROSE PARSONS,
Plaintiffs' Attorney. SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th February, 1857. TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.
NOTICE
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 PRAYA; in Filling in the Ground between such New Road and the present Sea-front of the Several Marine Lots; 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.. and 4 P.M.
THOS. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General,
|
Chief Justice.
In Equity.
In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON
decrased. ROBERT CALVERŰrawford, Complainant,
and
Between
WILLIAM RAYMond Gingell, Defendual. DURSUANT to a Decree or Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, in its Equitable Jurisdic- tion, made 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 Twentieth 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 Claims 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 Docree.
Dated the Twentieth day of March, in the your of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.
FREDERICK S. HUFFUM, 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-
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 DorGLAS LAPRAIK,
G. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator. Dated 13th March, 1857.
NOTICE. THE undersigned requests that all PARCELS and LETTERS to his address, may be delivered se NORMAN R. MASSON, Esquire.
W. H. ALEXANDER.
Hongkong, 13th March, 1857.