STATUS OF FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS ORDINANCE

STATUS OF FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS ORDINANCE

ORDINANCES Nos. 6 AND 7 oF. 1880.

Status of French Mail Steamers. Gaol Amendment.

No. 6 of I88C).

An Ordinance entitled,-' An Ordinance to make temporary provision:
for securing the status of French Mail Steamers within the Ports of
the Colony of Hongkong.

[31E it enacted by the Governor of Honong, with the advice,of the
Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:

2. The steam packets of .the Compagnis de's Messageries ,Maritimes,
employed
by the French Post Office in carrying mails to and from this Colony,
shall, when in the
ports of this Colony, be considoted aid treated as vessels of war, and
shall be entitled
to all the rights, privileges and immunities of vessels of war, and shall
not for any
cause be diverted from their special duties, or be liable to seizure or
detention by order
of any Court or Judge.

2; Nothing contained in this Ordinance, tend no rights or privileges
hereby granted, s;t,.;g rights
shall. affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or
Successors. e'~'~

3. This Ordinance shall continue in force, until the first day of
September, A.D. Fepirv of Ordi-

mzncc..

11881, incluslve.-

NoTt.---The Ordinance vas continued era force by annual enactment down
to' April

MAI ~X BTU.

Wo: 7 of 1884.

ArOrdinanee Entitled,---~r='the Prisons Regulations Amendment O,rdi-.,
nanee, 1$80.;

Status of Nle-
aageries Mari-

tlltlt`,i StettTk3eP3.

August,F it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative'
Council thereof, as follows:--
1. Ordinance 2 0£ 1878 is hereby repealed.

2. Section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863 is hereby amended, .by omitting the
words
t` or if the prisoner be under conviction of felony to punish by moderate
corporal
punishment not exceeding twelve strokes of a rattan;'. and by adding at
the end o£ the
section the words 'Provided that no imprisonment under this section shall
continue
after the expiration o£ the period for which the offender was originally
sentenced to
imprisonment by lawful authority.'

3, Sectian 12 of the same Ordinance is hereby amended, by inserting after
the X,nending

section 12 of

words 'above offences' the words 'with the exception of idleness or
negligence in Ordinance 4 nf

7sc:~.'

-woi'h'-and by substituting for the wordy 'Such Superintendent in
conjunction with
guy Justice of the Peace' the words 'any Police Magistrate,' and by
adding at the
end-of=tlie-section the words 'Punishments imposed under this section
shall be valid -
far all purposes notwithstanding the expiration of the period for which
the offender
was originally sentences to imprisonment by lawful authority.'

Ordinance 2 cf
7878 repealed.

Amending

section 11 of
Ordinance 4 of
1 8fi:3.
1567
Status of Messageries Maritimes steamers.
Saving rights of Crown.
Expiry of Ordinance.
Ordinance 2 of 1878 repealed.
Amending section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
Amending section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.

1567
Status of Messageries Maritimes steamers.
Saving rights of Crown.
Expiry of Ordinance.
Ordinance 2 of 1878 repealed.
Amending section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
Amending section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.

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