292
ORDINANCES Nos. 2. AND 3. OF 1864,
C. 9.
596
ORDINANCES Nos. 5. AND 6. OF 1865.
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And any other Returns required by the Governor.
Specimen Pieces to be taken at uncertain Times in each Quarter, and forwarded to Master of the Royal Mint in London for Examination. Quarterly Survey to be held of the Bullion and Coin in the Mint.
Salaries to be added to Civil List.
Salaries of other Officers to be fixed by the Governor and placed on the annual Estimates.
Title.
Preamble.
Mint.
Revenue.
(7.) Weight of each Description of Coin delivered to the Public, and the Amount, if any, charged for coining;
(8.) Copy of the Reports of the Assay of Coin;
(9.) Number and Description of Dies received or completed during the Quarter, of Dies worn out, of Dies effectually defaced, and of serviceable Dies in Hand;
(10.) A Return, showing the Waste during the Quarter, distinguishing the Waste arising in melting, in refining, in coining, and in assaying.
And he shall forward any other Returns which the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony may require.
VII. That with a View to ensure the careful Observance of the Standard in the Coin the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony shall cause to be taken at uncertain Times during each Quarter from amongst the Coins issued at the Mint to the Public, without Preference in the Selection, Specimen Pieces, and that such Specimens shall be forwarded from Time to Time to the Master of the Royal Mint in London for such Examination as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct.
VIII. That the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony shall direct a Board of Government Officers not less than three in Number, to assemble at the Mint at the Expiration of each Quarter for the Inspection of the Store of Bullion and Coin in the Mint, and report on the same to him, stating the exact Amounts of the Balance of each Description verified by them.
IX. That the Salaries specified as under shall be added to the Civil List:
The Master of the Mint, $6,720 Per Annum.
The Superintendent of the Bullion Office, $3,810
The Assayer, $3,840
The Superintendent of the Coining Department, $3,840
The Superintendent of the Melting Department, $3,840
X. That such other Officers and Servants of the Mint as may be appointed shall be paid such Salaries as may be fixed by the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony, with the Approval of the Secretary of State, and that such Salaries shall be borne on the Annual Estimates.
No. 3. of 1864.
An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding One hundred and fifty-two thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1863. [29th March, 1864.]
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1863, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates submitted
Accessories and Abettors. Forgery.
Recognizances and to find Sureties, both or either, for keeping the Peace, in addition to such Punishment: Provided that no Person shall be imprisoned under this Clause for any Period exceeding One Year.
As to Accessories generally.
V. If any principal Offender shall be in anywise convicted of any Felony, it shall be lawful to proceed against any Accessory, either before or after the Fact, in the same Manner as if such principal Offender had been attainted thereof, notwithstanding such principal Felon shall die, or be pardoned, or otherwise delivered before Attainder; and every such Accessory shall upon Conviction suffer the same Punishment as he would have suffered if the Principal had been attainted.
VI. Any Number of Accessories at different Times to any Felony, and any Number of Receivers at different Times of Property stolen at One Time, may be charged with substantive Felonies in the same Indictment or Information, and may be tried together, notwithstanding the principal Felon shall not be included in the same Indictment or Information, or shall not be in Custody or amenable to Justice
VII. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the Commission of any Misdemeanor, whether the same be a Misdemeanor at Common Law or by virtue of any Ordinance passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be indicted, tried, and punished as a principal Offender.
VIII. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the Fourteenth Day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five.
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No. 6. OF 1865.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to indictable Offences by Forgery.
[3rd June, 1865.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to indictable Offences by Forgery: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
As to forging Her Majesty's Seals, &c.
1. Whosoever shall forge or counterfeit, or shall utter, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Privy Seal, any Privy Signet or Sign Manual of Her Majesty, or any of Her Majesty's Seals appointed by the Twenty-fourth Article of the Union with Scotland, or the Public Seal of the Colony, shall be guilty of a Felony.