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Portion of
No. 1 of 1852.
SUPPRESSION OF DESERTION.
(2) by words or by any other means whatsoever, attempts to procure or persuade any soldier, sailor, or marine to desert;
or
(3) knowing that any soldier, sailor, or marine is about to desert, aids or assists him in deserting; or
(4) knowing any soldier, sailor, or marine to be a deserter, conceals such deserter, or aids or assists such deserter in concealing himself,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
4. A portion not exceeding one-half of every such fine shall be payable to the person by whose information or evidence the conviction of such offender is made.
Penalty payable to informer.
Forfeiture of licence on conviction
Case may be referred to Supreme Court.
5. Any publican or keeper of a boarding-house who is convicted of any one or more of the above-mentioned offences shall, in addition to the penalty above provided, forthwith forfeit any licence then held by him as a publican or boarding-house keeper, and he shall be and is hereby declared incapable of holding thereafter any licence as such publican or boarding-house keeper.
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent a magistrate acting under this Ordinance from sending any case arising out of any of the said offences for trial to the Supreme Court, which he may consider should be investigated there.
[Originally No. 2 of 1853.
1853.
No. 1 of 1853.
An Ordinance for the removal of doubts regarding the right of aliens to hold and transfer property within this Colony. [17th November, 1853.]
WHEREAS doubts have arisen regarding the right of aliens to hold and transfer property within this Colony: