COINAGE OFFENCES.
No. 7 of 1865.
145
32.-(1) Whenever any person is convicted of any indictable misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance, the Court may, in addition to or in lieu of any of the punishments authorised by this Ordinance, fine the offender, and require him to enter into his own recognizances and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace and being of good behaviour.
(2) In the case of any felony punishable under this Ordinance the Court may require the offender to enter into his own recognizances and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace, in addition to any punishment authorised by this Ordinance: Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this section for not finding sureties for any period exceeding one year.
[s. 33, rep. No. 50 of 1911.]
1866.
No. 1 of 1866, repealed by No. 58 of 1911.
[24 & 25 Vict. c.99 s. 38.]
No. 2 of 1866.
For the incorporation of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
[14th August, 1866.]
WHEREAS several persons have agreed to form a joint stock company, under the name or style of "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation," for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking and of conducting all business usually transacted by bankers; AND WHEREAS, for the purpose of establishing and carrying on the said undertaking, they have agreed that a capital of 5,000,000 dollars, divided into 40,000 shares of 125 dollars each, shall be raised in the first instance, with power to increase such capital to the extent and in the manner hereinafter mentioned; AND WHEREAS the said several persons have for some time been carrying on the business of bankers as an unregistered and unincorporated company; AND WHEREAS, for the better accomplishing and carrying into effect the objects and purposes of the said company, they have applied to the Governor to grant to them and all other the subscribers of such capital an Ordinance of Incorporation, which the Governor has consented and agreed to do, under and subject to the conditions, restrictions, and provisions hereinafter contained:-
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and the Final Revision Ordinance 1912.