711965-1867-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1867.

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I. The said High Court shall be and is hereby empowered to try without the High Court Intervention of a Jury all cases over which it hath or may hereafter have Jurisdiction, without a Jury.

II. The Supreme Court shall have Jurisdiction to try all Offences which by the Supreme Court said Ordinance No. 9 of 1866 for the Suppression of Piracy the High Court thereby Governor in Council constituted is authorized to try, and the Governor in Council and the said Supreme and Supreme Court to Court respectively shall have full power and authority to inflict such Punishments in offences relating to respect of the said Offences as the said Court by the Ordinance aforesaid has power and Piracy. anthority to inflict.

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III. Provided that nothing herein contained shall authorize the Supreme Court to Trial before Supreme try any such Offences aforesaid without the intervention of a Jury or without such Jury. proceedings as are now used and approved in the said Court with respect to Criminal Cases ordinarily heard and determined therein.

IV. The several Provisions in the said recited Ordinance contained incident to or Provisions of Ordi- connected with the exercise of the Powers thereby given, so far as the same are not

nance No. 9 of 1866, applicable to Pro- inconsistent with the Practice of the Supreme Court, shall be applicable to all Proceedings ceedings of Supreme instituted under the authority of this Ordinance.

Court under this Ordinance.

V. Every Person who might under Ordinance No. 9 of 1866, Section XIX, be Trial may take place committed for trial before the said High Court shall be committed for trial before the before Supreme Court. Supreme Court, unless the Attorney General shall otherwise direct.

VI. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter Commencement of be fixed by Proclamation under the hand of the Governor.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th Day of September, 1867.

Ordinance.

No. 6.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by Section VI of Ordinance No. 12 of 1867, it is enacted as follows:

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"This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by "Proclamation under the hand of the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, in pursuance of the said Section and by virtue of the Authority thereby in me vested, do hereby under my hand Proclaim, that the said Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the Fourteenth Day of September now Instant.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th Day of September, 1867.

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO

VICTORIÆ REGINE.

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

No. 13 OF 1867.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the more effectual Protection of Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores, and for the Regulation of Pawnbrokers' Licenses.

[10th September, 1867.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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