thereof;
and their distribution, posting, and removal from
station to station; and their inspection; and the description
of accoutrements, clothing and other necessaries to be fur-
nished to them; and also with relation to the fiscal duties
to be performed by the officers, as well of the police force
as of the Treasury Department with relation to the said
force. Such Order may affix for breach of any of the rules
or regulations a penalty of not more than ten shillings, or
imprisonment for not more than ten days with or without
reduction in rank. Every such Order shall come into
operation upon the publication thereof in the Gazette, or
at such time as shall be in such Order provided, and shall
be subject to disallowance by Her Majesty.*

NEWSPAPER REGISTRATION.

Ordinance No. 8 of 1894.

AN ORDINANCE to provide for the registration and making known of the names of proprietors and printers of [13th August, 1894.

newspapers.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Gold Coast
Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Newspaper Short title. Registration Ordinance, 1894."

2. In this Ordinance, unless there is anything in the Interpretacontext repugnant thereto,

"Registrar" means the Chief Registrar of the
Supreme Court;

Registry Office" means the principal office for the
time being of the Registrar;

"Newspaper" means any paper containing public

* Rules made 22nd Oct., 1894. See Appendix, p. 1166.

tion.

Register of newspaper

news or occurrences, or any remarks or observations thereon printed for sale and published periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding two months between the publication of any two such papers, parts or numbers; "Occupation" when applied to any person means his trade or following and, if none, then his rank or usual title;

"Place of residence" includes the street or quarter or place where the person to whom it refers resides.

3. A register of the proprietors of newspapers shall be proprietors to established.

be estab

lished.

Annual

made.

4. It shall be the duty of the printers and publishers returns to be for the time being of every newspaper to make or cause to be made to the Registry Office within one month after the commencement of this Ordinance, or, in the case of a newspaper first published after the commencement of this Ordinance, within one month after its first publication, and thereafter annually in the month of January in every year a return of the following particulars according to the Form A in the Schedule hereunto annexed, namely:

Penalty for

omission to

(a) the title of the newspaper,
(b) the names of all the proprietors of the newspaper,
with their respective occupations, places of
business, if any, and places of residence, and
(c) the total and average (according to the dates of
publication) circulation thereof for the year.

5. If such return be not made as to any newspaper make return. within the period aforesaid, then each printer and publisher of such newspaper shall be liable to a fine of twentyfive pounds and also to be directed by a summary order to make a return within a specified time.

Power to party to make return.

any

6. Any party to a transfer or transmission of or dealing with share or interest in any newspaper whereby any person ceases to be a proprietor, or any new proprietor is introduced, may at any time make or cause to be made to the Registry Office a return according to Form B in the Schedule hereunto annexed and containing the particulars therein set forth.

representation

from return.

7. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully make or Penalty for cause to be made any return by this Ordinance required wilful misor permitted to be made in which shall be inserted the in or omission name of any person as a proprietor of a newspaper who shall not be a proprietor thereof, or in which there shall be any misrepresentation, or from which there shall be any omission in respect of any of the particulars by this Ordinance required to be contained therein whereby such return shall be misleading; or if any proprietor of a newspaper shall knowingly and wilfully permit any such return to be made which shall be misleading as to any of the particulars with reference to his own name, occupation or place of business or residence; then and in every such case every such offender shall be liable to a fine of one hundred pounds.

in register.

search re

8. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to forthwith Registrar to register every return made in conformity with this Ordi- enter returns nance in a book to be called "the Register of newspaper Power to proprietors." Any person may search and inspect the said gister, &c. book from time to time during the hours of business at the Registry Office: and any person may, on payment of a fee of one shilling, require a copy of any entry in or an extract from the book to be certified by the Registrar.

evidence.

9. Every copy of an entry in and every extract from Certified the register purporting to be certified by the Registrar copies in, and shall be received as conclusive evidence of the contents of register to be the register so far as the same appear in such copy or extract, without proof of the signature thereto; and every such certified copy or extract shall in all proceedings, civil or criminal, be accepted as sufficient prima facie evidence of all the matters thereby appearing, unless and until the contrary thereof be shown. A certificate purporting to be Certificate of signed by the Registrar that he has received no return, or no return before a certain date, with regard to a particular newspaper shall in all proceedings, civil or criminal, be accepted as sufficient primâ facie evidence of the fact of such non-receipt.

10.-(1) The printer of every newspaper shall print on the first or last page of it his name and occupation and place

of residence.

(2) Whoever shall print any newspaper without comply

non-registra

tion.

Printers to
on every

print name,
&c.,

newspaper.

Recovery of fines and enforcement of orders.

ing with the requirements of the last preceding sub-section, and whoever shall sell or publish or disperse, or assist in publishing or dispersing, any newspaper on which the name and occupation and place of residence of the printer shall not be printed as aforesaid, shall for every copy so printed, sold, published or dispersed be liable to a fine of five pounds.

11. All fines under this Ordinance may be recovered before a District Commissioner. Summary orders under this Ordinance may be made by a District Commissioner, and may been forced in the manner provided by the rules of civil procedure for enforcing a decree.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

Ordinance No. 10 of 1894.

AN ORDINANCE to codify the law relating to Bills of Exchange, Cheques and Promissory Notes.

[14th August, 1894.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Gold Coast
Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:-

Part I.-Preliminary.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Bills of Ex- Short title. change Ordinance, 1894."

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpretarequires,―

"Acceptance," means an acceptance completed by
delivery or notification.

"Action," includes counter claim and set off.

"Banker," includes a body of persons whether incor-
porated or not who carry on the business of bank-

ing.

Bankrupt," includes

" includes any person whose estate is vested
in a trustee or assignee under the law for the time
being in force relating to bankruptcy.

"Bearer," means the person in possession of a bill or
note which is payable to bearer.

"Bill," means bill of exchange.

Delivery," means transfer of possession, actual or
constructive, from one person to another.

"Holder," means the payee or indorsee of a bill or
note who is in possession of it, or the bearer
thereof.

"Indorsement," means an indorsement completed by
delivery.

"Issue," means the first delivery of a bill or note, com-
plete in form to a person who takes it as a holder.
"Note," means promissory note.

tion of terms.