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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1852 . 267


Law of Evidence.


receive, and examine evidence as aforesaid ; provided it be proved to be an examined
copy or extract, or provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or
extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted , and which officer is
hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying at a
reasonable time for the same, upon payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not ex
ceeding twenty-five cents for every folio of ninety words.

9. If any officer authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any certified Certifying a false
document a mis
demeanour.
copies or extracts, shall wilfully certify any document as being a true copy or extract,
knowing that the same is not a true copy or extract, as the case may be, he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable, upon conviction, to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding eighteen months.

10. The Supreme Court, and every Judge, Justice, Officer, Commissioner, Arbi Court, &c., may
administer ouths.
trator, or other person, now or hereafter having, by law or by consent of parties , [See Ord. No. 2
of1860.]
authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence with respect to or concerning any
suit, action , or other proceeding , is hereby empowered to administer an oath to all
such witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.

11. If any person shall forge the seal, stamp, or signature of any document in Persons forging
seal, stamp, or
this Ordinance mentioned or referred to, or shall tender in evidence any such docu signature of cer
tain documents,
ment with a false or counterfeit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same or wilfully utter
ing same, guilty
of felony.
to be false or counterfeit , he shall be guilty of felony , and shall, upon conviction, be
liable to transportation for seven years, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
three years, nor less than one year with hard labour ; and whenever any such document
shall have been admitted in evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the Court or the
person who shall have admitted the same, may, at the request of any party against
whom the same is so admitted in evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded
and be kept in the custody of some officer of the Court or other proper person , for such
period, and subject to such conditions, as to the said Court or person shall seem meet ;
and every person who shall be charged with committing any felony under this Ordi
nance, may be dealt with, indicted , tried , and , if convicted, sentenced, and his offence
may be laid and charged to have been committed in the place in which he shall be
apprehended or be in custody ; and every accessory before or after the fact to any such
offence may be dealt with, indicted , tried , and, if convicted, sentenced, and his offence
may be laid and charged to have been committed in any place in which the principal
offender may be tried.

12. Nothing herein contained shall repeal any provision contained in chapter Nothing herein
to interfere with
twenty-six of the Statute passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the seventh law of wills.

year of the reign of King William the Fourth and the first year of the reign of Her
present Majesty.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1889. ]