ORDINANCES Nos. 1 AND 2 OF 1846 . 173
Trading in China. Supreme Court.
Attorney General for the said Colony ; and that the said Court in pronouncing 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 ca
lendar 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 judg
ment, as far as the proceeds of the said sale may reach.
[Repealed by effect of H. M.'s Order in Council of 3rd March, 1859 : See Gazette
9th July, 1859. ]
No. 2 of 1846.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 6 of 1845 , entitled " An Ordinance Title.
to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme
Court of Judicature at Hongkong , and to substitute other Provisions
in lieu thereof. "
[ 6th May, 1846. ]
HEREAS it is expedient to amend the said Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, by making Preamble.
WHEprovisions for the saving of all proceedings and all suits formerly depending
in the Court of Hongkong, the abolition of which Court is effected by the second
section of the said ordinance ; as also with reference to the fourth section of the said
ordinance, by limiting the operation , in this Colony, of the laws of England and
the practice of the English Courts to such laws and practice as existed when a local
legislature was first conferred on the said Colony : And whereas also it is deemed
advisable to reserve to the Legislative Council of the said Island , the power of revising.
and approving of the rules and orders to be made under the twenty-third section of the
said Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, before the same shall become binding ; and to repeal
the twenty-ninth section of the said ordinance, constituting a local Court of error
and appeal :
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of 29th section of
Ordinance No. 6
Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the of 1845 repealed.
passing of this Ordinance, the said twenty-ninth section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845
shall be, and is hereby repealed.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all proceedings formerly Proceedings
pending in
former Court
commenced in or adopted under the said former Court of Hongkong, and that all suits saved.
and matters (if any) which may have been pending at the date of its abolition, may be
continued or revived in the said Supreme Court.