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Neutrality. Foreign Attachment.


6. And be it further enacted and ordained , that if any Magistrate or the Chief or Power to search
suspected places.
Assistant Superintendent of Police shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any of
the different articles whose manufacture is prohibited by this Ordinance, are in process.
of manufacture in any house or place , it shall be lawful for any or either of such officers
to direct any constable to cause any such house or place to be entered and searched at
any hour of day or night, and such Magistrate or Chief or Assistant Superintendent of
Police may empower such constable to use force for effecting such entry, whether by Disposal ofar
ticles found.
breaking open doors or otherwise, and if upon search thereupon made, any such unlawful
manufacture shall be found to exist, then to convey the articles in course of manufac
ture before a Magistrate, or place them in safe keeping, and to apprehend all persons
found in the place where such seizure was made, and that, upon a conviction had, the
illegal articles found be forfeited to the Crown, and the occupant or person having the
control of such house or place shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand Penalty.
dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.

7. And be it further enacted and ordained , that all fines inflicted under this Or Disposal and re
covery of fines.
dinance shall be paid into the office of the Colonial Treasurer and shall be recoverable
in a summary manner according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, inti
tuled " An Ordinance to regulate summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace,
and to protect Justices in the execution of their office."

8. And be it further enacted and ordained , that nothing in this Ordinance con Government
stores excepted.
tained shall be held to extend to Government Naval or Military stores.

9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinance continue in force Duration of Or
dinance .
until the first day of January, 1856 .


[ Continued in force by Ordinance No. 1 of 1856u ntil January 1st, 1857. Sections
3 to 8 inclusive revive and made perpetual by Ordinance No. 9 of 1857. All repealed
by Ordinances No. 8 of 1882 and No. 4 of 1887. ]




No. 2 of 1855 .

An Ordinance to provide for and regulate process in actions at law Title.

against persons absent from the Colony.

[ 19th January, 1855. ]

HEREAS by the laws at present in force there are no means by which actions Preamble.
W at law can be successfully prosecuted against persons absent from the Colony
because there is no process by foreign attachment or otherwise for compelling either
defence or appearance on behalf of any such defendant