ORDINANCES Nos. 3 AND 4 OF 1855.
Jury Lists.
Registration of Vessels.
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passed for the amendment thereof, and to consolidate and amend the Enactments relating to Jurors and Juries," and questions might therefore arise as to the validity of the jury list for the year 1855:
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that, notwithstanding any irregularity in the making and forwarding of the said jury list for the year 1855, or otherwise, such jury list as altered and approved by the said Governor and Legislative Council, on the nineteenth day of February, 1855, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, and be in force from the first day of March, 1855, until the first day of March, 1856.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every person, on demand by the sheriff, or some one duly authorized by him, shall deliver in writing to such sheriff or such duly authorized person, his Christian or other names, and the surname or names at full length, under penalty, in the event of his refusing or neglecting so to give such names, of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that such fine shall be imposed and caused to be levied at the discretion and under order of the Supreme Court, on complaint made by the sheriff to the above effect.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all fines so levied shall be paid into the hands of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and by him accounted for to the Colonial Treasury.
Jury list for 1855 to be valid.
Names of residents to be given to sheriff on demand, for the purpose of forming jury list.
Penalty how levied.
Disposal of fines.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1864.]
No. 4 of 1855.
An Ordinance to establish a proper system of registration for Colonial vessels.
[3rd March, 1855.]
WHEREAS many illegal acts have resulted from the improper use of Registers granted at Hongkong under the provisions of the Imperial Acts to vessels employed solely in trading with the mainland of China, and it is necessary that legal trading should be protected and illegal trading prevented:
1. Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance no ship or vessel whatsoever owned by a British subject shall be at liberty to trade in any of the harbours of this Colony unless in the case of an outward trading ship or vessel she be provided with a certificate of registry in conformity with the Imperial Acts of Parliament on that behalf; and in the case of a China trading ship or vessel she has in all respects complied with the requirements of this Ordinance.
Title. [See Ord. No. 9 of 1856.]
Preamble.
No British vessel without either an Imperial or Colonial register to use the waters of this Colony.