SALVAGE AND PRIZE ORDINANCE

SALVAGE AND PRIZE ORDINANCE

Salvage -- Prize.

No. 5 of 1857.

An Ordinance for Salvage and Prize in certain cases.

[25th March, 1857.]

BB it ordained by His Excellency the. Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

I'xtsnsionof3Ier- 1. So much of the 'Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,' as
relates to salvage, is here
Actchant s Shitopping vage.by extended to this Colony, and to the Courts
and Justices thereof, and to all questi:o

of salvage coming before them, and wheresoever arising.
Salvage -- Prize.

Ordinance No. 5 of 1857.

2. Where, the value of any single boat, or (in the case of the capture
and bringing
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 stiponainry .1in-
.as, by the said extended portions of the °° Merchant Shipping Act,
1854,' are conferred biat''atea.
or imposed on two Justices of the Peace.

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

Pores fhom pira-
tes inChinn seas.

Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1861.
370

Extension of Merchant Shipping Act as to salvage.
371

Prizes frim pirates in China seas.
Stipendiary Magistrates.
Retrospective effect.

370

Extension of Merchant Shipping Act as to salvage.
371

Prizes frim pirates in China seas.
Stipendiary Magistrates.
Retrospective effect.

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