ORDINANCES Nos. 13 AND 14 OF 1868.
Treasonable Offences.
Revenue.
1021
5. It shall be lawful in any information for any felony under this Ordinance, to charge against the offender any number of the matters, acts, or deeds, by which such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, or any of them, shall have been expressed, uttered, or declared.
6. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall lessen the force of, or in any manner, affect anything enacted by the statute passed in the twenty-fifth year of King Edward the third,—A Declaration which Offences shall be adjudged Treason.
7. If the facts or matters alleged in an information for any felony under this Ordinance, shall amount in law to treason such information shall not by reason thereof be deemed void, erroneous or defective; and if the facts or matters proved at the trial of any person charged with any felony under this Ordinance, shall amount in law to treason, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted of such felony; but no person tried for such felony shall be afterwards prosecuted for treason upon the same facts.
8. In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner, as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable; and every accessory after the fact to any such felony shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement, for any term not exceeding two years.
9. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from the 17th October, 1868, under Proclamation of the same date: Repealed by Ordinance No. 15 of 1868.]
In informations more than one overt act may be charged.
Nothing herein to affect 25 Edward 3, chap. 2.
Informations for felony under this Ordinance valid though the facts may amount to treason:
As to the punishment of accessories before and after the fact.
Commencement of Ordinance.
No. 14 of 1868.
An Ordinance to apply a Sum not exceeding Eight hundred and Thirty-seven thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1869.
[13th October, 1868.]
Title.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1869, has been estimated at the sum of eight hundred and Thirty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. A sum not exceeding eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue of this Colony for the service of the year 1869, and the said sum so charged shall be expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say
ORDINANCES Nos. 13 AND 14 OF 1868.
Treasonable Offences.
Revenue.
1021
5. It shall be lawful in any information for any felony under this Ordinance, to -charge against the offender any number of the matters, acts, or deeds, by which such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, or any of them, shall have been expressed, uttered, or declared.
6. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall lessen the force of, or in any manner, affect anything enacted by the statute passed in the twenty-fifth year of King Edward the third,—A Declaration which Offences shall be adjudged Treason.
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7. If the facts or matters alleged in an information for any felony under this thereof, Ordinance, shall amount in law to treason such information shall not by reason be deemed void, erroneous or defective; and if the facts or matters proved at the trial of any person charged with any felony under this Ordinance, shall amount in law treason, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted of such felony; but no person tried for such felony shall be afterwards prosecuted for treason. upon the same facts.
8. In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner, as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable; and every accessory after the fact to any such felony shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement, for any term not exceeding two years.
9. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from the 17th October, 1868, under Proclamation of the same date: Repealed by Ordinance No. 15 of 1868.]
In informations more than one overt act may be charged.
Nothing herein to affect 25 Edward 3, chap. 2.
Informations for felony under this Ordinance valid though the facts may amount to treason:
As to the punishment of accessories. before and after the fact.
Commencement of Ordinance.-.
No. 14 of 1868.
An Ordinance to apply a Sum not exceeding Eight hundred and Thirty- seven thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1869.
[13th October, 1868.]
Title.
THEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year Preamble.
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1869, has been estimated at the sum of eight hundred and Thirty-six thousand
five hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents: Be it enacted by the Governor
of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. A sum not exceeding eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars shall be, Estimates, 1869. and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue of this Colony for the service of the year 1869, and the said sum so charged shall be expended as hereinafter specified; that
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