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False oath punishable as perjury.
Common report to be proof of the right of any person to exercise any office under this Ordinance.
Fines imposed on policemen to form a Reward Fund.
Governor may deduct portion of salary to increase Reward Fund.
Policeman in chief command at any station to take bail.
ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1844.
Police Force Regulation.
who on such inquiry, or on any other occasion on which an oath may be administered under this Ordinance, shall give false evidence, or take a false oath, and be thereof duly convicted, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall be liable to such pains and penalties, as persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are or may be subject and liable to.
9. And be it enacted, that if any question arise as to the right of any Chief, marine, or assistant Magistrate, or Superintendent of Police, or any serjeant, or other inferior officer, or of any common constable, to hold or execute any such office respectively, common reputation shall to all intents and purposes be deemed, and held to be sufficient evidence of such right, and it shall not be necessary to produce any appointment, or any oath, affidavit, or other document, or matter whatsoever, in proof of such right.
10. And be it enacted, that all fines imposed on any serjeant, or other inferior officer, or on any constable under this Ordinance shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Colony of Hongkong, and be carried by him to a separate account, so that the same may form a fund, to be called the "Police Reward Fund," to be appropriated for the payment of such rewards, gratuities, bounties, pensions, or other allowances, as the Governor may from time to time award, or direct to be paid to any person or persons appointed under this Ordinance, or to the widows and families of any such person at his death. And that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor to direct, if he shall think fit, that any proportions not exceeding ten shillings in the year, for every one hundred pounds of the salary of every person appointed under this Ordinance, and so in proportion for any salary less than one hundred pounds, shall be deducted yearly from such salaries, and added to the Reward Fund and form part thereof.
11. And be it enacted, that where any person, charged with any misdemeanor or petty felony, shall be brought without a warrant of a Justice of the Peace, into the custody of any serjeant of Police, or any other inferior officer of Police, in actual chief command at any Police station, it shall be lawful for such serjeant, or other inferior officer of Police, if he shall deem it prudent, (provided the Justice of the Peace, before whom the party charged with such misdemeanor, or petty felony is to be taken for examination on such charge, be not then in attendance at his office,) to take bail by recognizance without any fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall appear for examination before a Justice of the Peace, at some place to be specified in the recognizance, and at such earliest time then next after, when such Justice of the Peace shall be in attendance at his office, and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to the same proceedings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a Justice of the Peace, and the name, residence, and occupation of the party, and his surety or sureties, if any entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof, and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose,
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False oath punishable as perjury.
Common report to be proof of the right of any per- son to exercise any office under this Ordinance.
Fines imposed on policemen to form a Reward Fund.
Governor may
deduct portion of salary to increase Reward Fund.
Policeman in chief command
at any station to tako ball.
ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1844.
Police Force Regulation.
who on such inquiry, or on any other occasion on which an oath may be administered under this Ordinance, shall give false evidence, or take a false oath, and be thereof duly convicted, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall be liable to such pains and penalties, as persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are or may be subject and liable to.
9. And be it enacted, that if any question arise as to the right of any Chief, marine, or assistant Magistrate, or Superintendent of Police, or any serjeant, or other inferior officer, or of any common constable, to hold or execute any such office respectively, common reputation shall to all intents and purposes be deemed, and held to be sufficient evidence of such right, and it shall not be necessary to produce any appointment, or any oath, affidavit, or other document, or matter whatsoever, in proof of such right.
10. And be it enacted, that all fines imposed on any serjeant, or other inferior officer, or on any constable under this Ordinance shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Colony of Hongkong, and be carried by him to a separate account, so that the same may form a fund, to be called the "Police Reward Fund," to be appropriated for the payment of such rewards, gratuities, bounties, pensions, or other allowances, as the Governor may from time to time award, or direct to be paid to any person or persons appointed under this Ordinance, or to the widows and families of any such person at his death. And that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor to direct, if he shall think fit, that any proportions not exceeding ten shillings in the year, for every one hundred pounds of the salary of every person appointed under this Ordi- nance, and so in proportion for any salary less than one hundred pounds, shall be deducted yearly from such salaries, and added to the Reward Fund and form part thereof.
11. And be it enacted, that where any person, charged with any misdemeanor or petty felony, shall be brought without a warrant of a Justice of the Peace, into the custody of any serjeant of Police, or any other inferior officer of Police, in actual chief command at any Police station, it shall be lawful for such serjeant, or other inferior officer of Police, if he shall deem it prudent, (provided the Justice of the Peace, before whom the party charged with such misdemeanor, or petty felony is to be taken for examination on such charge, be not then in attendance at his office,) to take bail by recognizance without any fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall
appear for examination before a Justice of the Peace, at some place to be specified in the recognizance, and at such earliest time then next after, when such Justice of the Peace shall be in attendance at his office, and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to the same proceed- ings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a Justice of the Peace, and the name, residence, and occupation of the party, and his surety or sureties, if any entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof, and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose,
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