ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1869.
Criminal Law and Procedure.
Distillation of Spirits.
9. Whenever any person charged before a Magistrate with any crime or offence shall be committed for trial at the Supreme Court and the Attorney General shall be of opinion that further investigation is required before such trial, or that the case is one which should be determined in a summary manner by a Magistrate or by two Magistrates sitting together under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1863, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General to direct that the original depositions be returned to the committing Magistrate who may thereupon re-open the case and deal with it in all respects as if such person had not been committed for trial, and if the case be one which may be tried in a summary manner by the Magistrate or by two Magistrates sitting together, it may, if thought expedient, be determined accordingly.
10. Whenever any person who shall have been committed to prison by the Coroner charged by the verdict of the Coroner's jury with the crime of murder or manslaughter shall also be charged before a Magistrate, with the same crime, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate, in case he shall admit such person to bail upon such charge, to order the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol to discharge such person from custody under the Coroner's committal, and such person shall be discharged accordingly. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 17 of 1888.]
11. The Registrar of the Supreme Court for the time being shall ex officio be "Master of the Crown office" within this Colony.
12. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 3 of 1865 shall be construed together and for all requisite purposes be deemed and taken as one Ordinance, and nothing therein contained shall affect any other form of criminal procedure which may now by law exist in the Colony.
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Power to Magistrate to re-open a case committed for trial- in certain cases. Bail on committal by Coroner in certain cases. Master of the Crown office. Ordinance to be construed with No. 3 of 1865.No. 3 of 1869.
An Ordinance to empower His Excellency the Governor in Council to grant Licences for the Distillation of Spirits and the Rectifying and Compounding thereof within the Colony.
[24th September, 1869.]
WHEREAS by Ordinance No. 8 of 1844 the distillation of spirits and the rectifying and compounding thereof within the Colony are absolutely prohibited, and it is expedient that the same should be permitted subject to certain conditions and restrictions: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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