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Provision for the
of counterfeit Coin and
dence and for ultimate-
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST JULY, 1865.
the Decision of such Dispute; and the Colonial Treasurer, his Deputies and Clerks, and the Receivers of every Branch of the Revenue of this Colony are hereby required i cut, break, or deface, or cause to be cut, broken, or defaced every Piece of counterfeit or unlawfully diminished Gold or Silver Coin which shall be tendered to them in Payment of any Part of the Revenue.
27. If any Person shall find or discover in any Place whatever, or in the Custody Discovery and Seizure or Possession of any Person having the same without lawful Authority or Excuse, any Coining Tools, for se- false or counterfeit Coin, resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass
for any curing them as Evi- of the Queen's current Gold, Silver, or Copper Coin, or auy Coin ofany Foreign Prince, ly disposing of them. State, or Country, or any Instrument, Tool, or Engine whatsoever, adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of any such Coin, or any Filings or Clippings, or any Gold or Silver Bullion, or any Gold or Silver in Dust, Solution, or otherwise, which shall have been produced or obtained by diminishing or lightening any of the Queen's current Gold or Silver Coin, it shall be lawful for the Person so finding or discovering and he is hereby required to seize the same, and to carry the same forthwith before a Police Magistrate; and where it shall be proved on the Oath or Declaration of a credible Witness before a Police Magistrate, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any Person has been concerned in counterfeiting the Queen's current Gold, Silver, or Copper Coin, or any such Foreign or other Coin as in this Ordinance before mentioned, or has in his Custody or Possession any such false or counterfeit Coin, or any Instrument, Tool or Engine whatsoever adapted and intended for the making or counterfeiting of any such Coin, or any other Machine used or intended to be used for making or counterfeiting any such Coin, or any such Filings, Clippings, or Bullion, or any such Gold or Silver in Dusi, Solution, or otherwise as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for a Police Magistrate, by Warrant under his Hand, to cause any Place whatsoever belonging to or in the Occupation or under the Control of such suspected Person to be searched, either in the Day or in the Night, and if any such false or counterfeit Coin, or any such Instrument, Tool or Engine, or any such Machine, or any such Filings, Clippings, or Bullion, or any such Gold or Silver in Dust, Solution, or otherwise as aforesaid, shall be found in any Place so searched, to cause the same to be seized and carried forthwith before a Police Magistrate; and whensoever any such false or counterfeit Coin, or any such Instrument, Tool, or Engine, or any such Machine, or any such Filings, Clippings or Bullion, or any such Gold or Silver in Dust, Solution, or otherwise as aforesaid, shall in any Case whatsoever be seized and carried before a Police Magistrate, he shall, if necessary, cause the same to be secured for the Purpose of being produced in Evidence against any Person who may be prosecuted for any Offence against this Ordinance: and all such false and counterfeit Coin, and all Instruments, Tools, and Engines adapte: and intended for the making or counterfeiting of Coin, and all such Machines and all such Filings, Clippings and Bullion, and all such Gold and Silver in Dust, Solution, or otherwise as aforesaid, after they shall have been produced in Evidence, or when they shall have been seized, and shall not be required to be produced in Evidence, shall forthwith be delivered up to the Officers of the Mint, or to the Crown Solicitor, or to any
Person authorized by them to receive the same.
What shall be suffi-
being counterfeit.
28. Where, upon the Trial of any Person charged with any Offence against this cient Proof of Coin Ordinance, it shall be necessary to prove that any Coin produced in Evidence agains: such Person is false or counterfeit, it shall not be necessary to prove the same to be false and counterfeit by the Evidence of any Moneyer, or other Officer of the Mint, but it shall be sufficient to prove the same to be false or counterfeit by the Evidence any
other credible Witness.
Where the counter-
complete.
29. Every Offence of falsely making or counterfeiting any Coin, or of buying. feiting Coin shall be selling, receiving, paying, tendering, uttering, or putting off, or of offering to buy, s
receive, pay, utter, or put off, any false or counterfeit Coin, against the Provisions of th Ordinance, shall be deemed to be complete, although the Coin so made or counterfeite ! or bought, sold, received, paid, tendered, uttered, or put off, or offered to be bought sold, received, paid, uttered, or put off, shall not be in a fit State to be uttered, or t counterfeiting thereof shall not be finished or perfected.
Any Person may
30. It shall be lawful for any Person whatsoever to apprehend any Person wh apprehend Offenders shall be found committing any indictable Offence against this Ordinance, and to con against thisOrdinance. or deliver him to some Constable or Officer of Police, in order to his being conveyed
soon as reasonably may be before a Police Magistrate or some other proper Officer, to”- dealt with according to Law.
No Certiorari, &e.
31. No Conviction for any Offence punishable on summary Conviction under t Ordinance shall be quashed for Want of Form, or be removeď by Certiorari into i
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