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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1849 . 231


Petty Sessions Court.


No. 1 of 1849 .

An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 6 of 1847 , entitled " An Ordinance Title.

for extending the Summary Jurisdiction of Police Magistrates and
Justices of the Peace within the Colony of Hongkong," and to

substitute other Provisions in the place of those contained in the said
Ordinance .

[ 22nd February , 1849. ]

HEREAS it has been deemed advisable and fit to repeal the said Ordinance No. Preamble.
W 6 of 1847, and to substitute other provisions in place of those contained in the
said Ordinance, but with the intent of extending the said jurisdiction as it existed
previous to the passing of that Ordinance :

1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Ordinance No. 6
of 1847 repealed .
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the
passing of this Ordinance, the said recited Ordinance No. 6 of 1847 be, and the same
is hereby repealed.

2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that a Court of Petty Sessions shall sit Establishment
of a Court of
at the office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, on the Monday of every week, to hear, Petty Sessions,
with jurisdiction
to deal with
try, and determine in a summary manner, any of the crimes and offences undermen certain offences.
tioned, committed within this Colony or its dependencies, or the harbours thereof, that
is to say, assault, and assault and battery, notwithstanding that it may have been
attended with an intent to commit felony ; larcenies where the stolen property shall not
exceed fifty dollars in value ; all cases whatsoever of embezzlement, (save those of
embezzlement by factors or agents), or of obtaining property by false pretences, or of
knowingly receiving stolen property where the value of the property involved as the
subject-matter of the offence, shall not exceed fifty dollars ; all cases of extorting money
or property by threatening to accuse any person of any indictable offence, or by threats.
of injury to his, her, or their property ; all cases of breach of prison where no serious
bodily injury shall have been inflicted ; all cases of knowingly uttering, or having
possession of with intent to utter, counterfeit silver or copper coin current in this
Colony, if the amount of such coin so uttered or possessed be intended to represent a
value not exceeding fifty dollars ; all cases of conspiracy or combination among artisans
or workmen, relating to their employ or work ; all cases of riotous assemblage with
intent to injure any house, place, or furniture, or any person whatsoever ; and all
attempts or endeavours to commit any of the crimes or offences above enumerated .
3. And be it further enacted and ordained , that the said Court of Petty Sessions Constitution of
Court with re
shall be held before the Chief Magistrate of Police, or in his unavoidable absence before spect to the
presiding
Justices.
such person, being a Justice of the Peace, as he may depute subject to the approval of
the Governor together with any Justice or Justices of the Peace of the said Colony of
Hongkong that may see fit to attend ; such Justice or Justices having separately
and individually, in all proceedings before the Court, an equal voice with the said