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Governor Sir John Booring
2nd June, 1856.
Victorian, Hongkong,
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Transmitting, for
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Ordinances
No 2 of 1856.
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An Ordinance for Her Majesty's Subjects within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any Ship or Vessel at the Distance of not more than One Hundred Miles from the Coast of China.
ANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 2 of 1856.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to explain the Law as to Removals of Prisoners.
[29th May, 1856.] Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, in manner following:
1. The Chief Superintendent or Consul within whose jurisdiction any party charged with having committed an Offence in any Consular District in China against the Treaties, Rules, or Regulations to which the Escaped Offenders Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 13th Day of June 1853 refers, and further charged with having escaped or departed out of the said last mentioned District, shall happen to be found, may lawfully, if the said Chief Superintendent or Consul shall think fit, cause the said party to be removed to the Consular District out of which he shall have so escaped or departed.
II. All Removals whatsoever of Prisoners or parties from or to any Port in China under any Act of Parliament or Order in Council, or under this or any other Ordinance, shall be effected, and the respective expenses thereof shall be defrayed in like manner as, by Articles Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty-two, and Twenty-three, of the said Order in Council of the 13th day of June 1853, is provided with respect to the embarking, conveying, delivering, commitment, and expenses of persons deported under the authority of the said Articles respectively, so far as the provisions thereof respectively shall be found applicable to the circumstances of each particular case.
JOHN BOWRING.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 29th Day of May, 1856.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.