ORDINANCES Nos. 12 , 13 AND 14 OF 1862 . 537
Sentence of Death. Practitioners in Law. Patents.
No. 12 of 1862 .
An Ordinance to amend the form in which Sentence of Death is passed .
[ 3rd July, 1862. ]
E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
B advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
1. In passing sentence of death on a prisoner convicted of a capital felony, it Not necessary in
passing sentence
shall not be necessary for the presiding Judge to declare that the body of the convict of death to
direct body of
convict to be
shall be buried within the precincts of the gaol, but that such burial shall be made in buried in gaol.
some convenient place to be appointed by His Excellency the Governor, who is hereby
empowered to issue his order to the gaoler accordingly.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1865.]
No. 13 of 1862 .
An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 12 of 1858 , entitled " An Title.
Ordinance for Practitioners in Law."
[ 3rd July, 1862. ]
E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
-
advice of the Legislative Council thereof ;
B
1. Ordinance No. 12 of 1858 , entitled " An Ordinance for Practioners in Law," Ordinance No. 12
of 1858 repealed
from 31st
shall be repealed from and after the thirty-first day of December, 1864. December, 1864.
2. Every barrister who is now by faculty privileged to act as a notary in Hongkong, Barristers may
act as notaries,
shall be entitled to continue so to act after this Ordinance shall have come into after 1864.
operation.
3. On the first day of January, 1865 , every barrister who is now practising as a Barristers may
after 1864 act as
legal practitioner in this Colony, shall elect whether he will act from that time as a such, or as
attorneys.
barrister, or as an attorney and solicitor, and shall sign the Court roll accordingly,
declaring the way in which he has exercised the option hereby granted .
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887. ]
No. 14 of 1862.
An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Title.
Colony
[ 3rd July, 1862. ]
WHEREAS Patents for inventions granted in England are not usually . Preamble .
extended to the colonies , and it is expedient that power should be
vested in His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive
Council to grant Letters Patent for the exclusive use of inventions within