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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1871.

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO QUINTO

VICTORIE REGINA.

HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General, and Lieutenant-Governor,

No. 5 OF 1871.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for the Trial and Punishment of Offenders to whom a Pardon has been granted under Ordi- nance No. 1 of 1860, and who may be found at large within the Colony, in Violation of the Condi- tion of such Pardon.

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[1st September, 1871.]

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the Trial and Punish- ment of Offenders to whom a Pardon has been granted under Ordinance No. 1 of 1860 and who may be found at large within the Colony, in Violation of the Condition of such Pardon : Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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Pardon.

I. The following Enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say: Repealing Section II of Ordinance No. 1 of 1860, and Ordinance No. 16 of 1870. Clause.

II. If any Offender to whom a Pardou shall have been granted, Breach of either before or after the Passing of this Ordinance under the Conditional Provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1860 on Condition of his quit- ting the Colony, be afterwards found at large thereia without lawful Authority or Excuse the Proof whereof shall lie upon him, he shall be guilty of a Felony or of a Misdemeanor according to the nature of the Offence for which he shall have received such Conditional Pardon, and shall on Conviction thereof before the Supreme Court be liable in the Discretion of the Court to any Sentence not exceed ng the whole of his original or commuted Sentence, such Sentence to commence from the Date at which he shall be tried and convicted under this Ordinance: Provided always that in all Cases in which the Prisoner when brought before a Magistrate upon such Charge shall plead guilty thereto, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to deal summarily with the Case instead of committing the Prisoner for Trial at the Supreme Court.

III. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 1 of 1860 shall be read Construction. together and construed as One Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 1st Day of September, 1871.

L. D'ALMADA » CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published for general information.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 1st September, 1871.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Adviec of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Eight thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1870.

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1871.]

EAS it has become necessary to make further Provi- sion for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1870, in addition to the Charge upon the Rovenne for the Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates submitted

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