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DIEU DROIT




HONGKONG ,



ANNO SEPTIMO



VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.



No. 10 of 1844.


Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-
dencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects
trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, with
the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to regulate Summary Proceedings before Justices of Title.
the Peace, and to protect Justices in the Excecution of their Office.
[ 10th April, 1844. ]

WHEREAS it is expedient and necessary to make Provision
for regulating and for securing Uniformity in Summary Proceedings
before Justices of the Peace, and to afford due Protection to Justices
in the Execution of their Office :


I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Proceedings before
Justices.
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That
from and after the passing and publication of this Ordinance, the
Provisions hereof shall extend to all Cases wherein, by any English
Law or Statute, or by any Ordinance enacted in this Colony, any
Proceeding shall have been, or shall be, or is by this Ordinance
directed to be had, or Matter authorized to be heard and determined,
by or before any Magistrate of Police, or before any Justice or Jus-
tices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong, or in a Summary
Way; and it shall be lawful for any One Justice to receive the dicate.
One Justice to adju-
Information or Complaint, and to issue the Summons or Warrant
requiring the Parties and Witnesses to appear before himself, or
before any Two or more Justices, as the case may require ; and upon
the Appearance of the Defendant, or his Contempt by not appearing,
after having been duly summoned in Manner hereinafter mentioned,
F and