sels sailing under
Definition of the II. And be it further enacted, That the terms "ships or term ships or ves- vessels sailing under the British Flag," used in the said the British Flag. Ordinance, shall be held solely to mean and include British vessels navigated according to Law, or vessels British owned, and provided with Sailing Letters from the Government of Hongkong.
Provisions as to
or Mortgages,
III. And be it enacted, That the power given by the said the sale of vessels Ordinance, of selling ships or vessels, discharged of bills of discharged of Bills of Sale, Transfers, sale, transfers, or mortgages, made or executed under the circumstances therein also mentioned, be confined to cases of sale, transfer, or mortgages made or executed after the seizure of such ships or vessels, and to cases of sales, transfers, or mortgages made before seizure, if made to transferees or mort- gagees having notice that such ship or vessel had been employed in trading contrary to any of the prohibitions of the said Ordinance.
Provision as to
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That no vessel seizure of vessels. shall be seized or detained under the provisions of the said Ordinance, unless the Chief Superintendent of Trade shall have issued a general or special warrant or order under his Hand and Seal for that purpose, which warrant or order shall also direct that such vessel shall with all reasonable expedition be brought into the Harbour of Hongkong, and be there detained until further order of the Chief Superintendent aforesaid, or of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
Penalties, how recovered.
V. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and For- feitures which may have been heretofore, or may be hereafter incurred under this or the said Ordinance, may at the instance of the Chief Superintendent of Trade be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, upon information to be filed by Her Majesty's Attorney-Ge- neral for the said Colony; and that the said Court in pronoun- cing any judgment or order imposing any penalty incurred by a violation of the said Ordinance, shall have power to authorize and direct, that if the same be not paid within One Calendar Month from the time of giving or making such judgment or order, the said vessel shall be sold by Public Auction, in whole or part satisfaction of the said judgment, as far as the proceeds of the said sale may reach.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor &c., &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 23d day of January, 1846.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELT
Clerk of Council
HONGKON
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to myself the hover is state for the information of His Excellency The Gevemer, that this late Excellency Sir Henry Bollinger Bast ; instructed the Wartor Master Dr. W. Pedder B.S. not to
put Ordinance V. 11 of 184141 into force, for the
following deasons.
On that Ordinance being made
public, the Merchants stated, that they could not become sureties for the excts of Masters of Merchant vessels, who often total strangers to them.
this
Honorable
They
moreover stated that as
British Fort, they could
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Colonial Secretary,
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