Sir,
Victoria July 6th 1845.
With reference to the Returns of Prisoners in the Jail on the 1st Instant, I am directed by the Honorable the Governor to intimate to you His Excellency's opinion, that in all cases where prisoners are detained in jail... after the expiration and fulfilment of the other parts of their Sentences - and a payment of Fines receivable by the Complainant, or Prosecutor, it will be proper that the latter should be called on to pay for the subsistence of such Prisoners, and you will be pleased to adopt this Rule, until Regulations can be framed and promulgated, applicable to all such cases from the 13th of this month.
I have &c.
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Major Williams Caine
(Sgd) Richard Caine.
Chief Magistrate.
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Victoria July 6th 1863.
With reference to the Proclamation and Oath relating to Justices of the Peace issued under date the 27th June 1843, the words "residing in, or resorting to" Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies having been inadvertently omitted after "to", I am therefore directed by the Honorable the Governor, to request, that you will fill up this omission in all the Oaths you may administer to the said Justices of the Peace.
The Oath as thus corrected will run "residing in or resorting to Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies or the dominions of the Emperor of China".
Major William Caine,
Chief Magistrate.