ORDINANCES Nos. 5 and 6 of 1857.
Salvage-Prize.
Registration and Census.
2. Where, the value of any single boat, or (in the case of the capture and bringing in of more boats than one) the collective value of any boats, heretofore or to be hereafter captured from pirates in the China Seas and brought into port by the captors, shall not (including the property aboard) exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, it shall be lawful for the Court of Petty Sessions or a Stipendiary Magistrate 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 restore, the same accordingly, and to award or refuse costs and other expenses, as shall be deemed reasonable 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 and fourteenth years of the Queen, chapter twenty-six; and also except in cases where the said Admiralty Court shall be of opinion that a difficult question of law was involved.
3. A Stipendiary Magistrate shall have and exercise the same powers and duties as, by the said extended portions of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," are conferred or imposed on two Justices of the Peace.
4. All acts and things heretofore done, which, if done after the passing hereof, would be valid, are hereby made valid and lawful for all purposes.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1861.]
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Prizes from pirates in China seas.
Stipendiary Magistrates.
Retrospective effect.
No. 6 of 1857.
An Ordinance for Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People,
and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.
BE it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say :-
1. Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. 3 of 1853, and so much of Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or superintendence of, or control over, the Police Force thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed.
2. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established; together with the Registrar General and other the officers and assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed.
Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of ordinances and part of an ordinance.
Census and registration officer established.
ORDINANCES Nos. 5 and 6 of 1857.
Salvage-Prize.
Registration and Census.
2. Where, the value of any single boat, or (in the case of the capture and bringing in of more boats than one) the collective value of any boats, heretofore or to be here- after captured from pirates in the China Seas and brought into port by the captors, shall not (including the property aboard) exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, it shall be lawful for the Court of Petty Sessions or a Stipendiary Magistrate 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 restore, the same accordingly, and to award or refuse costs and other expenses, as shall be deemed reasonable 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 and fourteenth years of the Queen, chapter twenty-six; and also except in cases where the said Admiralty Court shall be of opinion that a dif- ficult question of law was involved.
3. A Stipendiary Magistrate shall have and exercise the same powers and duties as, by the said extended portions of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," are conferred or imposed on two Justices of the Peace.
4. All acts and things heretofore done, which, if done after the passing hereof, would be valid, are hereby made valid and lawful for all purposes.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1861.]
371
Prizes from pira -
tes in China seas.
Stipendiary Ma- gistrates.
Retrospective effect.
No. 6 of 1857.
An Ordinance for Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People,
and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.
BE
[5th May, 1857.]
E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say :-
1. Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. 3 of 1853, and so much of Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or superintendence of, or control over, the Police Force thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed.
2.
he Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established; together with the Registrar General and other the officers and assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed.
Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of ordi- nances and part of an ordinance.
Census and re- gistration officer established..
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