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THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH OCTOBER, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 121.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby Fren, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

■il, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotificatIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

HONGKONG.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE. No. 10 of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the ony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 3 of 1849..

[23d October, 1857.] Whereas it is expedient to alter and amend that portion of Ordinance No. 3 of 1849, by which Defendants arrested and taken in Execution under the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, sitting its Summary Jurisdiction, for Sums exceeding the amount of One Hundred Dollars, are debarred the Sacfit of the Fourteenth Section of Ordinance No. 9 of 1845: Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner lowing, that is to say :---

Title,

Preamble.

Persons imprisoned

I. Every Defendant who shall be arrested and taken in Execution under the Process of the said preme Court, sitting in its Summary Jurisdiction, and in whose case the Debt or Damages decreed or under Process of the ered shall exceed the Sum of One Hundred Dollars, but shall not exceed the Sum of Five Hundred Court for Sums from lars, shall and may be imprisoned in the Prison of the said Court at the discretion of the Chief Justice Dollars, not to be im- One to Five Hundred the said Supreme Court, for any Term not exceeding Twelve Months, unless before the Expiration of prisoned for a longer ich Term the Order or Decree of the said Court shall have been satisfied; and in case such Order or Term than Decree shall not be satisfied at the Expiration of such Term, then such Defendant shall be discharged from Months.

ath Prison; but it shall be lawful for the Complainant, at any Time after such Order or Decree, to take et fresh Execution against any Estate or Effects which such Defendant may have become possessed of or

titled to, until such Order or Decree shall be fully satisfied.

Twelve

Expenses of Keep- ing such Debtors to be defrayed by the Par- ties at whose Suit they

II. Whenever any such Defendant as aforesaid shall be arrested and taken in Execution under such cess as aforesaid, the Complainant, at whose Suit he shall be so arrested and taken in Execution, shall such Expenses as may have been incurred in and about the maintenance of such Defendant, in such son as aforesaid, not exceeding the Rate of Twenty-five Cents per diem; and the amount of such are arrested, penses shall be a Debt due to the Crown, and shall be suable for and recoverable by the Governor of Me Gaol for the time being.

have incurred the

III. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed or taken to extend or apply to any Defendant, who Ordinance not to have contracted the Debt or become liable to the Damages for which the Decree or Order of the said apply to Debtors who preme Court shall have been given against him, or any part thereof, by reason of any manner of Fraud, Debt by Fraud or Breach of Trust, or without reasonable probability at the Time of contracting the same of being able to Breach of Trust, &c.

the same, or who shall have voluntarily done or suffered any Act whereby his goods shall have been en in Execution, or shall have voluntarily made or done any Assignment, Deed, Act or Thing, with ent to delay or defraud the Complainant, at whose Suit such Decree or Order shall be given against him any other of his Creditors.

IV. This Ordinance shall extend to Persons now in Prison under Ordinance No. 3 of 1849.

l'assed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 23d Day of October, 1857.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

for the Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

Ordinance to extend

to Persona now, in Prison.