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XXXV. Over and above the Pecuniary Penalties appointed by Section Thirty-two, Chinese offenders Chineso Officers helding the office of Kapcheong or Tepo shall be liable to ignominious Removal or Dismissal by His offending liable to ig Excellency in Council after the methods and usages of the Chinese.

nominious Dismissal.

XXXVI. Where, upon the conviction of any offender, it shall appear that before the commission of the In case of Security, fence he had given Security to the Registrar General under this Ordinance, and that by such offence the the amount of penalty same is become forfeited, the amount of such Security shall be deemed to be the penalty actually incurred to be that of the Secu- by him, so that it shall not be lawful for the Court to impose any penalty for his said offence save and rity. except the amount of his said Security.

XXXVII. Conspiracies of Chinese to violate, or in fraud of, any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, Trial of conspiracies may be heard and determined by the Registrar General according to the Laws for the time being in force by Chinese against

this Ordinance. for repression of Conspiracies; and his judgment therein shall be final, unless a Certiorari for removing the proceedings either before or after judgment shall be obtained by the Crown or by the Defendant as the case may be, within Ten Days from the first commencement of the said proceedings, and unless the proceedings up the said Certiorari shall be prosecuted with effect in the Supreme Court within Six Weeks from the estaining thereof.

XXXVIII. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following Terms and Words shall be severally Construction of words. taken, not only in their received sense, but also to extend to and include the meanings hereinafter specified, that is to say:

“Householder,” “Occupier," "Person occupying," and "Master of the House," shall include every Per-Occupier.'

son acting as Master thereof, Occupant of the Groundfloor thereof at a rent, and (in the event of a vacant House, or of no other Occupier being to be found) Owner thereof, or his Agent. And House or Building shall include any Shop, Outhouse, Shed, or Roof:

And “European” shall include all Persons other than Asiatics, and also all such Asiatics (not being Chi-

nese as owe or shall owe permanent allegiance unto Her Majesty:

And "Chinese" shall include Natives of Hongkong and other places out of the Empire of China, being

of Chinese blood or following Chinese usages:

Save only and except where by the express letter of this Ordinance a more limited meaning hath

been attributed to any or either of the said Terms and Words.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS Ordinance REFERS :---

0.50 Quarterly.

10.00 Annually.

Fee for Hawkers,

1st Class Boats plying for hire,

2d

Do. Do. Do.

3d Do. Do. Do.

4th Do. Do.

Do.

5.00

9.00

0.50.

10.00

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'House or Building.'

Europeans.

And 'Chinese :'

Exception.

Trading and Fishing Boats,

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony 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 for Salvage and Prize in certain cases.

:

March, 1857.] C Be it ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. So much of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," as relates to Salvage, is hereby extended to this Colony, and to the Courts and Justices thereof.

Extension of Mer- chant Shipping Act as to Salvage.

Prizes from Pirates

11. Where the value of any single Boat, or (in the case of the capture and bringing in of more Beats than one) the collective value of any Boats, heretofore or to be hereafter captured from Pirates in thein China Seas. China Seas and brought into port by the captors, shall not (including the property aboard) exceed Dollars, it shall be lawful for the Court of Petty Sessions to hear and adjudicate upon all questions touching the same, whereof the Vice-Admiralty Court hath or shall have cognisance, and to condemn, acquit, or festore, the same accordingly, and to award or refuse Costs and other expenses, as shall be deemed reason- e and fit, and no Costs or expenses shall be allowed by the Vice-Admiralty Court to any Person suing there, in respect of any such capture, except in cases arising under the Act of Parliament of the Thirteenth 153 Fourteenth Years of the Queen, chapter Twenty-six.

11. A Stipendiary Magistrate shall have and exercise the same Powers and Duties, as by the said Stipendiary Magis. ritended portions of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," are conferred or imposed on two Justices of the trates. l'race.

IV. All Acts and things heretofore done, which, if done after the passinghereof, would be valid, are. Retrospective effect bereby made valid and lawful for all purposes.

NOTICE.

HE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME

SỬA QUY ĐỂ Alarck instant, at 12 o'clock Noon.

By order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting-Registrar.

NOTICE.

E deri SassIONS of the SUPREME COURT, 29 Its SUMMARY JURISDICTION, will be held on #RIDAY", the 3d day of April Next, at 12 o'clock

· By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting-Registrar.

In de Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria,

Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.

LL. Persons having Claims against, or being in- debted to, the above Estate, are requested to of particulars of the same to the undersigned

HENRY RUTTER,

17th March, 1857.

Administrator.

NOTIFICATION.

POLICE DEPARTMENT, Hongkong,

20th March, 1857.

T is desirable that Division 9, Section 2, of Or

dinance 14 of 1845, FORBIDDING the EXERCISING or TRAINING of HORSES on the Public Roads, under Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, shall be enforced to the extent necessary to ensure safety or prevent annoyance to the Public.

Owners of Horses are therefore requested to instruct their Servants to exercise their Horses only at one or other of the following places.

1.-Caine's Road.

2-Road leading from Glenealy to Government

House.

3--Road passing in Rear of Ordnance Stores and

Head Quarters House. 4-Queen's Road, West of Messrs Murrow &

Co.'s Premised.

5.-Queen's Road, East of Wanchi.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF IN- SOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA.

No

In the matter of the

ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE Office. ́OTICE is hereby given, that by an Order of this Court, bearing date the Seventh day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- seven, the SHAREHOLDERS of the said “ASIA- TIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE" are required to pay the further Sum of Company's Rupees TWO THOUSAND, assessed in respect of each Share held by them respectively, on or before the following dates, that is to say the Shareholders resident in CALCUTTA, or the Suburbs thereof, on or before the Tenth day of March next; the Shareholders resident in HONGKONG and BOMBAY, on or before the Tenth day of May neat; and the Shareholders resident in GRBAT BRITAIN and All other PlåCES not mentioned in the said Order, on or before the Tenth day of September next; and that the OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE will be at liberty to apply that the Defaulting Shareholders be

This Regulation will be strictly enforced on and adjudged to have committed an Act of Insolvency after the 24th instant,

C. MAY, Superintendent of Police.

according to the Provisions of Indian Insolvent Act,

DENMAN, HATCH, & DAVIS, Attorneys for the Official Assignee.