NOTIFICATION, His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., having been pleased to increase, in some respects, the powers and authority originally granted to the Chief and Marine Magistrate, respectively, the Warrants of those Officers have been revised and modified, and in their new form are now published for general information.
By order,
J. Robt. Morrison.
Acting Secretary and Treasurer.
Government House.
Hongkong, 30th April, 1842.
CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S WARRANT,
AND I do hereby authorize you, for the police purposes hereinbefore specified to arrest, detain, discharge and punish such offenders according to the principles, and practice of General British Police Law and to inflict on any such offender corporal punishment, to the extent of thirty-six strokes or lashes; when you may consider that mode of punishment called for by, and appropriate to, the offence.
AND all persons subject to the Mutiny Act, or the general law for the Government of the Fleet, found committing police or other offences, shall be handed over to their proper military superior for punishment.
AND I do further authorize and require you, to detain in safe custody any persons whatever found committing within the Government of Hongkong, crimes and offences amounting to felony, according to the laws of England; forthwith reporting your proceedings therein and the grounds thereof, to the head of the Government for the time being.
By his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, Envoy Extraordinary, and Chief Superintendant of the Trade of British Subjects in China, charged with the Government of the Island of Hongkong.
Pending Her Majesty's further pleasure, I do hereby constitute and appoint you William Caine Esquire, brevet Major, and Captain in Her Majesty's 26th (or Cameronian) Regiment of Infantry, to be Chief Magistrate of the Island of Hongkong and its dependencies: and I do hereby empower and require you to exercise authority, according to the laws, customs, and usages of China as near as may be (every description of torture excepted) for the preservation of the peace and the protection of life and property of all the native inhabitants on the said Island, the shores and harbours thereof.
AND I further authorize and require you to investigate and summarily to decide all claims for debts, not exceeding the sum of Fifty Dollars, or one hundred and twenty-five Rupees, that may be brought before you and further to investigate when so brought to your notice, either claims for debts, beyond that sum and not exceeding Two hundred Dollars, or Five hundred Rupees, but referring in all cases, such larger claims to the head of the Government for the time being, for instruction. And I further require you, as often as you may deem it necessary to confine debtors, with the view of enforcing your awards, immediately and specially to report such decision to the head for the time being of the Government.
AND I do further authorize and require you, in any case where the crime, according to Chinese laws, shall involve punishments of such severity as are included in the annexed scale, to remit the case for the judgement of the head of the Government for the time being.
SCALE
Imprisonment (with or without hard labor) for more than Six months.
Penalties exceeding 400 Dollars.
Corporal punishment exceeding ... Strokes or lashes.
Capital punishments.
100
And I do further require you, in all cases followed by sentence or infliction of punishment to keep a record, containing a brief statement of the case, and copy of the sentence.
AND for all your lawful proceedings in the premises, this warrant shall be your sufficient protection and authority.
GIVEN under my hand and seal of Office at Hongkong, this twenty-fifth day of April in the year 1842.
SIGNED
HENRY POTTINGER
By the Chief Superintendant &c. Charged with the Government.
SIGNED
J. Robt. Morrison
Acting Secretary and Treasurer.
MARINE MAGISTRATE'S WARRANT,
Pending Her Majesty's further pleasure, I do hereby constitute and appoint you,
And I further authorize and require you to exercise Magisterial and police Authority over all persons whatever (other than natives of China dwelling on the Island, or persons subject to the Mutiny Act or to the General law for the Government of the Fleet), who shall be found committing breaches of the peace on shore in any part or dependency of this Island, or breaches of William Pedder, Esquire, Lieutenant in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, to be Marine Magistrate of the Island of Hongkong and its dependencies: And I hereby empower and require you, to exercise authority, agreeably to the Regulations from time to time.
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NOTIFICATION, His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., having been pleased to increase, in some respects, the powers and, authority originally granted to the Chief and Marine Magistrate, respectively, the Warrants of those Officers have been revised and modi- fied, and in their new form are now publish- ed for general information.
By order,
J. Robt. Morrison. Acting Secretary and Treasurer.
'Government House.
Hongkong, 30th April, 1842.
CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S
WARRANT,
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any regulations to be the issued from time to time by this Government according to the customs and usages of British Police Law.
AND I do hereby authorize you, for the police purposes herein before specified to arrest, detain, discharge and punish such offenders according to the principles, and practice of General British Police Law and to inflict on any such offender corporal punishment, to the extent of thirty six strokes or lashes; when you may consider that mode of punishment called for by, and appropiate to, the offence.
AND all persons subject to the mutiny act, or the general law for the Government of the Fleet, found committing police or other offences, shall be handed over to their proper military superior for punishment.
AND I do further authorize and require you, to detain in safe custody any persons whatever found committing within the Go- vernment of Hongkong, crimes and offences amounting to felony, according to the laws of England; forthwith reporting your pro- ceedingstherein and the grounds thereof, to the head of the Government for the time being.
By his Excelleney Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart, her Majesty's Minister Plenipoten tiary, Envoy Extraordinary, and Chief Superintendant of the Trade of British Subjects in China, charged with the Government of the Island of Hongkong.
Pending her Majesty's further pleasure, I do hereby constitute and appoint you William Caine Esquire, brevet Major, and Captain in Her Majesty's 26th. (or Camero-
AND 1 further authorize and require you nian) Regiment of Infantry, to bë Chief
to investigate and summarily to decide all Magistrate of the Island of Hongkong and claims for debts, not exceeding the sum of its dependencies: and I do hereby empow-Fifty Dollars, or one hundred and twenty er and require you to exercise authority, five Rupees, that may be brought before according to the laws, customs, and usa- you and further to investigate when so ges of China as near as may be (every de- brought to your notice, either claims for scription of torture excepted) for the preser-debts, beyond that sum and not exceeding vation of the peace and the protection of life Two hundred Dollars, or Five hundred Ru- and property of all the native inhabitants
pecs, but referring in all cases, such larger on the said Island, the shores and harbours claims to the head of the Government for thereof.
the time being, for instruction. And I And I do further authorize and require further require you, as often as you may you, in any case where the crime, according deem it neccessary to confine debtors, with to Chinese laws, shall involve punishments the view of enforcing your awards, imme- of such severity as are included in the
annexed scale, to remit the case for the judg-diately and specially to report such decision gement of the head of the Government for to the head for the time being of the Go- the time being.
SCALE
Imprisonment) with or without hard labor) for more than Six-months.
Penalties exceeding 400 Dollars. Corporal punishment exceeding Strokes or lashes.-
Capital punishments.
100
And I do further require you, in all cases followed by sentence or infliction of punish- ment to keep a record, containing a brief statement of the case, and copy of the sen-
tence.
vernment.
AND for all your lawful proceedings in the premises, this warrant shall be your sutfici- ent protection and authority.
GIVEN under my hand and seal of Office at Hongkong, this twenty-fifth day of April in the year 1842.
SIGNED
HENRY POTTINGER
By the Chief Superintendant '&c. Charged with the Government.
SIGNED
J. Robt: Morrison
Acting Secretary and Treasurer. MARINE MAGISTRATE'S
WARRANT,
Pending her Majesty's further pleasure, I do hereby constitute and appiont you,
And I further authorize and require you to exercise Magisterial and police Autho- rity over all persons whatever (other than natives of China dwelling on the Island, or persons subject to the Mutiny Act or to the William Pedder, Esquire, Lieutenant in General law for the Government of the her Majesty's Royal Navy, to be Marine fleet), who shall be found committing brea- Magistrate of the Island of Hongkong and ches of the peace on shore in any part or its dependencies:And I hereby emporwer dependency of this Island, or breaches of and require you, to exercise anthority, agreeably to the Regulations from time to
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