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ORDINANCES Nos. 5 AND 6 OF 1857. 371


Salvage-Prize. Registration and Census.


2. Where the value of any single boat, or (in the case of the capture and bringing Prizes from pira
tes in China seas.
in of more boats than one) the collective value of any boats, heretofore or to be here
after captured from pirates in the China Seas and brought into port by the captors,
shall not (including the property aboard) exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, it shall
be lawful for the Court of Petty Sessions or a Stipendiary Magistrate to hear and
adjudicate upon all questions touching the same, whereof the Vice-Admiralty Court
hath or shall have cognisance, and to condemn, acquit, or restore, the same accordingly,
and to award or refuse costs and other expenses, as shall be deemed reasonable and fit ;
and no costs or expenses shall be allowed by the Vice-Admiralty Court to any person
suing there, in respect of any such capture, except in cases arising under the Act of
Parliament of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the Queen, chapter twenty- six ;
and also except in cases where the said Admiralty Court shall be of opinion that a dif
ficult question of law was involved .

3. A Stipendiary Magistrate shall have and exercise the same powers and duties Stipendiary Ma
gistrates.
as, by the said extended portions of the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," are conferred
or imposed on two Justices of the Peace.

4. All acts and things heretofore done, which, if done after the passing hereof, Retrospective
effect.
would be valid, are hereby made valid and lawful for all purposes.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1861. ]




No. 6 of 1857.

An Ordinance for Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People , Title.

and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.

[ 5th May, 1857. ]

E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with Preamble.
BR the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that
is to say :

1. Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. 3 of 1853, and so much of Repeal of ordi
nances and part
Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of an ordinance.

of Police with any direction or superintendence of, or control over, the Police Force
thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the
Peace may in his magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed.

2. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for Census and re
gistration officer
the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established ; together with the established.

Registrar General and other the officers and assistants by whom the duties and
business thereof have been hitherto performed.