ORDINANCES No. 6 OF 1847 AND No. 1 OF 1848 . 227
Magistrates- Summary Jurisdiction. Gunpowder.
or Magistrates, shall stand and be used in the place of an indictment or information, Magistrates,
shall be used in
and that the said Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after demand made by any lieu of
indictment or
information in
person so convicted as aforesaid, deliver to him a copy of such depositions and cases of appeal.
Defendant
certificate upon his paying for the same a fee of sixpence for every folio of ninety entitled to
copies of
words, which said depositions and certificate shall be evidence as well for the defendant depositions, &c.
as for the prosecutor .
10. And be it further enacted and ordained , that ' in all criminal cases where by Parties
committed for
the laws of England or the local ordinances, persons committed for trial shall be trial entitled to
copies of
entitled to copies of the depositions taken by a Magistrate previous to their commitment, depositions, on
payment of
sixpence per
it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to permit such copies to be made on the payment folio of ninety
words.
of a fee of sixpence per folio of ninety words.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and may be lawful for Magistrate
empowered to
decide in cases
the said Magistrates or Justices, or any or either of them, to decide in a summary ofwages, & c.,
between masters
manner all cases of dispute or wages between masters and servants, as if such cases had and servants.
been brought before the Supreme Court within its summary jurisdiction.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in the construction of this Rules for
construction of
Ordinance unless there be something repugnant thereto, any word denoting the Ordinance .
singular number and male sex shall be taken to extend to any number of persons or
things, and to both sexes.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 1 of 1849.]
No. 1 of 1848.
An Ordinance to regulate the Manufacture and Storage of a Title.
certain Description of Gunpowder within the Colony of
Hongkong .
[ 31st August , 1848.]
HEREAS it has hitherto been a subject of public complaint that Preamble.
[See Ord. No.
R
WHEgunpowder has from time to time been manufactured and stored 12 of 1872.]
within the said Colony in a manner endangering the persons and pro
perty of the inhabitants thereof ; and whereas it is deemed necessary to
make provision against such practice : —
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained , that no person shall ma Gunpowder
not to be ma
nufacture or make, or cause to be manufactured or made, any gun nufactured
within cer
powder, or any preparation of brimstone for the purpose of employing it tain limits of