714869-1865-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION — Page 4

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1865.

Misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, for the First Offence to be imprisoned for any Terin not exceeding One Year, and for the Second Offence to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and 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.

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Pieces of such com-

in their Possession.

23. Whosoever without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie, Penalty on Persons on the Party accused) shall have in his Custody or Possession any greater Number of venge the live Pieces than Five Pieces of false or counterfeit Coin resembling or apparently intended terfeit, Foreign Coin to resemble or pass for any Gold or Silver Coin of any Foreign Prince, State or Country or any such Copper or other Coin as in the last preceding Section mentioned shall on Conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate forfeit and lose all such false and counter- fit Coin which shall be cut in Pieces and destroyed by Order of such Magistrate, and shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay any Sum of Money not exceeding Ten Dollars nor less than Three Dollars for every such Piece of false and counterfeit Coin which shall be found in the Custody or Possession of such Person, one Moiety to the Informer and the other Moiety to the Funds of the Colony: and in case any such Penalty shall not be forthwith paid, it shall be lawful for any such Magistrate to commit the P'erson who shall have been adjudged to pay the same to the Common Gaol there to be kept to Hard Labour for the Space of Three Months, or until such Penalty shall be paid.

or having Possession

24. Whosoever without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie Making, mending on the Party accused) shall knowingly make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or of any Caining Tools, mend, or buy or sell, or have in his Custody or Possession, any Puncheon, Counter- Felony. l'uncheon, Matrix, Stamp Die, Pattern or Mould in or upon which there shall be made or-impressed, or which will make or inpress, or which shall be adapted and intended to make or impress the Figure, Stamp or apparent Resemblance of both or either of the sides of any of the Queen's current Gold or Silver Coin, or of any Coin of any Foreign Prince, State or Country or any Part or Parts of both or either of such Sides; or shall make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or shall buy or sell, or have in his Custody or Possession, any Edger, Edging or other Tool, Collar, Instrument or Eugine adapted and intended for the making of Coin round the Edges with Letters, Grainings or other Marks or Figures apparently resembling those on the Edges of any such Coin as in this Section aforesaid, knowing the same to be so adapted and intended as aforesaid; or shall make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or shall buy or sell, or have in his Custody or Possession, any Press for Coinage or any Cutting Engine for cutting by force of a Screw or of any other Contrivance round Blanks out of Gold, Silver or other Metal or Mixture of Metals or any other Machine knowing such Press to be a Press for Coinage, or knowing such Engine or Machine to have been used or to be intended to be used for or in order to the false making or counterfeiting of any such Coin as in this Section aforesaid, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof 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.

Monies out of the Mint

25. Whosoever without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie Conveying Tools or on the Party accused) shall knowingly convey out of the Mint any Puncheon, Counter- without Authority, luncheon, Matrix, Stamp, Die, Pattern, Mould, Edger, Edging or other Tool, Collar, Felony. Instrument, Press or Engine, used or employed in or about the Coining of Coin or any useful Part of any of the several Matters aforesaid, or any Coin, Bullion, Metal or Mixture of Metals, shall be guilty of Felony and being convicted thereof 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.

diminished or counter-

it is tendered.

26. Where any Coin shall be tendered as the Queen's current Gold or Silver Coin suspected to he Coin to any Person who shall suspect the same to be diminished otherwise than by feit may be cut by reasonable Wearing, or to be counterfeit it shall be lawful for such Person to cut, any Person to whom break, bend or deface such Coin, and if any Coin so cut, broken, bent or defaced shall appear to be diminished otherwise than by reasonable Wearing or to be counterfeit the Person tendering the same shall bear the Loss thereof; but if the same shall be of due Loss. Weight and shall appear to be lawful Coin the Person cutting, breaking, bending or defacing the same is hereby required to receive the same at the Rate it was coined for; and if any Dispute shall arise, whether the Coin so cut, broken, bent or defaced

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