348 ORDINANCES Nos. 8 AND 9 OF 1856 .
Buildings and Nuisances. Shipping.
General shall by warrant authorize and direct a proper officer to seize and take posses
sion of the said house, and to hold the same until such deficiency shall be defrayed,
and all the accruing rents and profits of the said house shall be applied by the said
Magistrate or Justice in payment of the said deficiency.
Tanks, reser 19. The Surveyor General and his officers are authorized to seize any utensil,
voirs, and
building mate
rials. which he or they shall detect any person in the act of dipping into any public tank,
or reservoir ; and also all building materials found by him or them deposited or lying
upon any public road, or in the side channels thereof ; and all utensils or materials so
seized may be lawfully confiscated by the Surveyor General, and disposed of as he shall
direct.
Saving of existing 20. All existing remedies for the prevention or abatement of nuisances and the
remedies.
punishment of those guilty thereof shall continue to be in force notwithstanding this .
Ordinance.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 15 of 1889. ]
No. 9 of 1856 .
Title.
An Ordinance to explain certain Enactments relating to Shipping.
[ 29th May, 1856. ]
Preamble. Re "HEREAS by " The Merchant Shipping Act 1854," and " The Chinese Passengers"
cites " The Mer
chant Shipping WHAct 1855 ," the power to amend the said Acts in their application to this Colony
Act 1854," and
"The Chinese
Passengers' Act is, under certain conditions, reserved to this Legislature, and it is desirable to exercise
1855,"
the aforesaid power in manner hereinafter appearing : Be it enacted and ordained by
His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council
thereof, as follows :
Chinese residents 1. The British flag may be lawfully used by any Chinese resident within the
may use the Bri
tish flag in colo meaning of Ordinance No. 4 of 1855 , on board of any ship or vessel registered in this
nially registered
vessels.
Colony in the name of the said resident under the Ordinance aforesaid.
Colonial regis 2. Every register, certificate, endorsement, declaration, or bond authorized or re
ters, &c., may be
proved by pro quired by the said Ordinance, may be proved in any Court of Justice, or before any
duction of origi
nals or copies. person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by
the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof
purporting to be certified under the hand of the Colonial Secretary or other person who
for the time being shall happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he
is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same,
and paying therefor the sum of one dollar for every such certified copy ; and every do
cument, when so proved as aforesaid , shall be received as prima facie evidence of all
the matters therein recited, stated, or appearing.