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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1865.

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Instruments employed

ments.

45. If it shall be made to appear, by Information on Oath Affirmation or Declaration, Search for Paper or before a Justice of the Peace, that there is reasonable Cause, to believe that any Person in any Forgery, and hs in his Custody or Possession, without lawful Authority or Excuse, any Note or for forged Instru Bill of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or Ireland, or of any Body Corporate, Company, or Person carrying on the Business of Bankers, or any Frame, Mould, or Implement for making Paper in imitation of the Paper used for such Notes r Bills, or any such Paper, or any Plate, Wood, Stone, or other Material having thereon ay Words, Forins, Devices, or Characters capable of producing or intended to produce the Impression of any such Note or Bill, or any Part thereof, or any Tool, Implement, or Material used or employed or intended to be used or employed in or about any of the Operations aforesaid, or any forged Security, Document, or Instrument whatsoever, or any Machinery, Frame, Mould, Plate, Die, Seal, Paper, or other Matter or Thing used or employed or intended to be used or employed in the Forgery of any Security, Document, or Instrument whatsoever, such Justice may, if he think fit, grant a Warrant to search for the same; and if the same shall be found upon such Search, it shall be lawful to seize and carry the same before a Police Magistrate, to be by him disposed of according to Law; and all such Matters and Things so seized as aforesaid shall by Order of the Court where any such Offender shall be tried, or in case there shall be no such Trial then by Order of a Police Magistrate, be defaced and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as such Court or Justice shall direct.

were Capital before the

and are not otherwise

Ordinance, shall be punished with Penal

46. When by any Enactment now in force in this Colony any Person falsely All Forgeries which making, forging, counterfeiting, erasing, or altering any Matter whatsoever, or uttering, Act of the Imperial publishing, offering, disposing of, putting away, or making use of any Matter whatsoever Parit. 1. W. 4 c. tit. knowing the same to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, punishable under this or any Person demanding or endeavouring to receive or have any Thing, or to do or cause to be done any Act, upon or by virtue of any Matter whatsoever, knowing such Servitude for Life, v. Matter to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased or altered, would according to the Provisions contained in any such Enactment be guilty of Felony and would before the passing of the Act of the First Year of King Williain the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-six, have been liable to suffer Death as a Felon; or where by any Enactment now in force in this Colony any Person falsely personating another, or falsely acknowledging any Thing in the Name of another, or falsely representing any other Person than the real Party to be such real Party, or wilfully making a false Entry in any Book, Account, or Document, or in any Manner wilfully falsifying any Part of any Book, Account or Document, or wilfully making a transfer of any Stock, Annuity, or Fund in the Name of any Person not being the Owner thereof, or know- ingly taking any false Oath, or knowingly making any false Affidavit, false Affirma- tion or false Declaration or demanding or receiving any Money or other Thing by virtue of any Probate or Letters of Administration, knowing the Will on which such Probate shall have been obtained to have been false or forged, or knowing such Probate or Letters of Administration to have been obtained by means of any false Oath, false Affirmation or false Declaration would according to the Provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of Felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer Death as a Felon; or when by any Act now in force any Person making or using, or knowingly having in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, or Instrument for the making of Paper, with certain words visible in the Substance thereof, or any Person making such Paper, or causing certain Words to appear visible in the Substance of any Paper, would, according to the Provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of Felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer Death as a Felon; then, and in each of the several Cases aforesaid, if any

Person shall after the Cominencement of this Ordinance be convicted of any such Felony as is herein before in this Section mentioned, or of aiding, abetting, coun- selling,

or procuring the Commission thereof and the same shall not be punishable under any

of the other Provisions of this Act, every such Person shall be liable at the Discretion of the Court to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.

Principals in the

47. In the Case of every Felony punishable under this Ordinance, every Principal second Degree and in the Second Degree, and every Accessory before the Fact, shall be punishable in the Accessories. same Manner as the Principal in the First Degree is by this Ordinance punishable; and every Accessory after the Fact to any Felony punishable under this Ordinance shall on Conviction be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not