ORDINANCES Nos. 1 AND 2 OF 1855.
Neutrality.
Foreign Attachment.
6. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any Magistrate or the Chief or Assistant Superintendent of Police shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any of the different articles whose manufacture is prohibited by this Ordinance, are in process of manufacture in any house or place, it shall be lawful for any or either of such officers to direct any constable to cause any such house or place to be entered and searched at any hour of day or night, and such Magistrate or Chief or Assistant Superintendent of Police may empower such constable to use force for effecting such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and if upon search thereupon made, any such unlawful manufacture shall be found to exist, then to convey the articles in course of manufacture before a Magistrate, or place them in safe keeping, and to apprehend all persons found in the place where such seizure was made, and that, upon a conviction had, the illegal articles found be forfeited to the Crown, and the occupant or person having the control of such house or place shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all fines inflicted under this Ordinance shall be paid into the office of the Colonial Treasurer and shall be recoverable in a summary manner according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, intituled "An Ordinance to regulate summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace, and to protect Justices in the execution of their office."
8. And be it further enacted and ordained, that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be held to extend to Government Naval or Military stores.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinance continue in force until the first day of January, 1856.
[Continued in force by Ordinance No. 1 of 1856 until January 1st, 1857. Sections 3 to 8 inclusive revive and made perpetual by Ordinance No. 9 of 1857. All repealed by Ordinances No. 8 of 1882 and No. 4 of 1887.]
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Power to search suspected places.
Disposal of articles found.
Penalty.
Disposal and recovery of fines.
Government stores excepted.
Duration of Ordinance.
No. 2 of 1855.
An Ordinance to provide for and regulate process in actions at law against persons absent from the Colony.
[19th January, 1855.]
WHEREAS by the laws at present in force there are no means by which actions at law can be successfully prosecuted against persons absent from the Colony because there is no process by foreign attachment or otherwise for compelling either defence or appearance on behalf of any such defendant-
Title.
Preamble.