38 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1865.
SCHEDULE A.
ORDINANCE.
TITLE.
EXTENT OF REPEAL.
No. 8 of 1845.
An Ordinance to regulate Criminal Proceedings.
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No. 6 of 1846.
No. 1 of 1850.
An Ordinance for the Regulation of Criminal Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Hongkong during the absence of Her Ma- jesty's Attorney General..
An Ordinance for the Better Administration of Justice in Criminal Proceedings before the Supreme Court and for improving the Law of Evidence..
The whole.
The whole.
No. 4 of 1852.
No. 5 of 1856.
The whole.
An Ordinance to facilitate the Administration of Criminal Justice The whole.
An Ordinance for the Amendment of Procedure in Civil and Cri-
minal Cases
Section one.
No. 6 of 1856.
An Ordinance to extend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance No. 4
of 1852..
The whole.
No. 7 of 1857.
An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Juries and Evi-
dence
Section eight.
No. 1 of 1858.
An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure..
The whole.
No. 3 of 1858.
An Ordinance for the Supreme Court
Section two.
No. 21.
(Schedules B. and C. are common Forms at present in use.)
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Report of the Harbour Master, with Returns annexed for the Year 1864, is published for general information.
No. 8.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1865.
C
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 31st January, 1865. SIR-I herewith have the honor to submit for His Excellency's inspection the annual Returns of shipping &c., for this Colony for the year ending 31st December 1864.
The welfare of the Colony is so bound up with its shipping that it will be gratifying to Her Majesty's Government and His Excellency to find that much as the Trade had increased up to 31st December, 1863, (date of last returns) to how much greater an extent do the returns for the last year shew that prosperity to have steadily advanced, the entries at this Port for the years 1883 and 1864 shew 894,924 und 1,013,748 Tons respectively or an increase of 118,824 of which 77,037 Tons are British.
The Trade under the American Flag has fallen off very considerably, the returns for 1860 shewing 231,834 Tons against 56,164 Tons for 1864.--Entries from the United States for last year amount to 46,079 Tons and clearances to 30,712 Tons bat these Cargoes are conveyed principally in Foreign bottoms, the tonnage under the French and German Flags shews a large addition.
Sheets of Export and Imports remain blank from inability (through absence of a Custom House) to keep those returns. Forty four Vessels have been added to the Register Book for this Colony during the year, while thirteen have been struck off.
The Emigration hence shews a slight decrease.-The Head Quarters for the Government Emigration to the West Indies having been transferred hence to Canton, to some extent, accounts for this--the return Emigrants from various ports are 6,778 in number bringing gold to the amount of £150,758 Sterling and 1,181,200 dollars.
The cases tried at the Marine Magistrate's Court are 80 in excess of those of last year, this is to be attributed to the increased number of ships in Port, none of the cases were of a serions nature.
The number of men shipped during the year is 9032 being an increase of 166.
Under Ordinance No. 17 of 1860,-78 Masters and Mates have passed examinations before the Boards established under that Ordinance, other 98 presented themselves but were rejected as being incompetent, this is of itself sufficient evidence that this Ordinance with the compulsory clause 5 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1862,—are productive of good, as most of the applications come from men anxious to obtain employment in China it follows that but for the local law much valuable property and many lives would be in charge of incapable men.
Although Hongkong has progressed so wonderfully since the signing of the Treaty with China in 1861, it must not be forgotten that the Trade of Canton the most Southern open Port in the Chinese Empire has been almost ruined, the opening of the Yang-tze-kiang to Hankow has diverted the transport of Teas &c., to Shanglan for shipment where formerly a great deal of the produce of the Country was conveyed South by land and shipped at Canton Whoca, it is however to be hoped that the proposed Railway Scheme will bring the trade back again to the Southern Forts, and should Railway communication be extended to Kowloong, Hongkong would become the principal shipping Port for the whole of China; the Railway system will save much time and danger at present experienced in Ocean and River Navigation by Vessels that under existing circumstances have to ship at the Northern Ports.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,
H. G. TIIOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.
The Honorable W. T. MERCER, Esq.
Colonial Secretary.
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