(1.) Fails to produce his ticket-of-leave when required to do so by any Judge or Stipendiary Justice of the Peace, or other competent Magistrate before whom he may be brought charged with any offence, or by any constable or officer of the police in whose custody he may be, and also fails to make any reasonable excuse why he does not produce the same; or

(2.) Breaks any of the other conditions of his ticket-of-leave by an act that is not of itself punishable either upon indictment or upon summary conviction

He shall be deemed guilty of an offence punishable summarily by imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.

of Holder

rant.

4. Any constable or police officer may, without warrant, take Apprehension into custody any holder of such a ticket-of-leave whom he may without War. reasonably suspect of having committel any offence, or of having broken any of the conditions of his ticket-of-leave, and may detain him in custody until he can be taken before a Stipendiary Justice of the Peace or other competent magistrate, and dealt with according to law.

ishment of

5. Any offence under this Ordinance punishable summarily may Summary Pun be prosecuted summarily before the Police Magistrate of George- Offences. town, or any Stipendiary or Special Justice of the Peace, or any Superintenden* of Rivers, Creeks, Crown Lands and Forests, in manner directed by Ordinance No. 19, of the year 1856, intituled "An Ordinance to Amend the Law Relating to Summary Convictions by Justices of the Peace," or any Ordinanca amending the same, and the proceedings shall be subject to the like review.

is summarily

6. Where any holder of a ticket-of-leave granted in the form Where Holder set forth in the said Schedule (A) is convicted of an offence punish convicted, able summarily under this or any other Ordinance, the Justice or

This office has been abolished by Ordinance 9 of 1878,

It is

other

Special Mag. for the River District

be forwarded

Secretary.

Certificate to other magistrate convicting the prisoner shall without delay forward to Government to the Government Secretary a certificate in the form given in Schedule (B) to this Ordinance annexed, and thereupon the ticketof-leave of the said holder may be revoked in manner provided by "The Prisons Ordinance, 1862."

vocation of

Ticket of
Leave.

7. Where any ticket-of leave grauted in the form set forth in Effect of For- the said Schedule (A) is forfeited by a conviction of any indictable feiture or Re- offence, or offence punishable by any Inferior Court of Criminal Justice, or is revoked in pursuance of a summary conviction under this or any other Ordinance, the person whose ticket-of-leave is forfeited or revoked shall, after undergoing any other punishment to which he may be sentenced for the offence in consequence of which his ticket-of-leave is forfeited or revoked, further undergo a term of penal servitude equal to the portion of his term of penal servitude that remained unexpired at the time of his ticket-of-leave being granted, and shall, for the purpose of his undergoing such lastmentioned punishment, be removed from the prison in which he may be confined, to any prison in which convicts under sentence of penal servitude may lawfully be confined, by warrant under the hand of any Justice of the Peace, and shall be liable to be there dealt with in all respects as if such term of penal servitude had formed part of his original sentence.

dale (A).

8. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, Tickets of whenever he thinks fit, to grant from time to time to convicts under Leave may be granted in form sentence of penal servitude, tickets-of-leave in any other form differdiffering from eat from that set forth in Schedule (A) which he may consider itthat in Sche. expedient to adopt, and containing other and different couditions ; and such last-mentioned tickets-of-leave shall be revocable at the Governor's pleasure; but no holder of such last-mentioned ticketof-leave shall be deemed guilty of an offence punishable upon summary conviction merely by reason of the breach of the conditions of the said last-mentioned tickets-of-leave or any of them.

Commence.

ment of Ordi. nance.

9. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof.

SCHEDULES.

at a
on

His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, is pleased to grant to who was convicted of Session of the Supreme Court of Criminal Justic for the County of the and was then and there sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for the term of years, and is now confined in the Licence to be at large from the day of his liberation under this order during the remaining portion of his said term of Penal Servitude, unless the said shall before the expiration

of the said term be convicted of some indictable offence, or offence punishable by an Inferior Court of Criminal Justice within the Colony, in which case such Licen e will be immediately forfeited by law, or unless it shall please His Excellency, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, sooner to revoke or alter such Licence.

This Ticket of Licence is given subject to the conditions endorsed upon the same, upon the breach of any of which it will be liable to be revoked, whether such breach is followed by a conviction or not.

And His Excellency hereby orders that the said within Thirty days from the date of this order.

Given under my hand,

be set at liberty

1. The Holder shall preserve his Ticket of Leave and produce it when called

do so by a Magistrate or Police Officer.

2. He shall abstain from any violation of the law.

upon to

3. He shall not habitually associate with notoriously bad characters, such as reputed thieves and prostitutes.

4. He shall not lead an idle and dissolute life, without visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood.

If his Ticket of Leave is forfeited or revoked in consequence of a conviction for any offence, he will be liable to undergo a term of Penal Servitude equal to the portion of his term of years which remain unexpired when his Ticket of Leave was granted,

viz, the term of

years.

Schedule B.

Form of Conviction of Holder of Ticket of Leave.

I do hereby certify that

the

day of

the Holder of a Ticket of Leave was on in the year 18 duly convicted by me the undersigned Stipendiary Justice of the Peace in and for Judicial District (or Police Magistrate of Georgetown or otherwise, as the case may be,) of the offence of and sentenced to

C. D.,

S. J. P.

[Ord. 7 anno 1865.]

No. V.

No. V.

[Ord. 8 anno AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE 1865.] OFFICE AND DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL.

Preamble.

Enacted 12th June, 1865, published the 14th following, came into operation 30th June, 1865.

[FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor]. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the

Office and Duties of Administrator-General: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:

:

Short Title.

PRELIMINARY.

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes Administrator-General's Ordinance, 1865."

Interpretation 2. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance:

of terms.

"" as The

The term "Court" shall mean the Supreme Court of Civil Justice of British Guiana, and also the Chief Justice in NonSession of said Court:

The term "Estate" shall include every description of Moveable and Immoveable Property, goods, chattels, money, securities for money, and all writings relating to or evidencing any right or title to any Property, and all rights of action and claims:

The term "Trust" shali include every description of Guardianship, Curatorship, and Sequestration and Administration of a Plantation in cultivation, and also every Executorship to which the Administrator-General shall be appointed in his official capacity:

unless in any of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided,

or

or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.

ment of

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commencethe Thirtieth day of June in this present year One Thousand Eight Ordinance. Hundred and Sixty-five.

vious Ordi

4. Upon the taking effect of this Ordinance, so much of Ordi- Repeal of prenance No. 18, of the year 1844, as is still unrepealed,-Ordinance nances. No. 7, of the year 1851,-sections 196, 197, 198, 201, 205 to 208, both inclusive, and 228 and 231 to 237, both inclusive, of Ordinance No. 26, of the year 1855, in so far as the same severally relate to the Administrator-General-and so much of Ordinance No. 32, of the year 1864 as relates to Sales by order of the Administrator-General,-shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

OFFICE AND EMOLUMENTS OF ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL
OF BRITISH GUIANA.

of Adminis.

5. Her Majesty may appoint an Administrator-General of Bri- Appointment tish Guiana, a Sub-Administrator for the County of Berbice, a Chief trator-General Clerk, an Accountant, and such number of other Clerks in the said office and Officers. as shall be, from time to time, considered necessary by the Governor and Court of Policy: Provided always, that until such appointment of an Administrator-General of British Guiana shall be made, the person or persons holding the respective offices of AdministratorGeneral of Demerary and Essequebo, and of Administrator-General of Berbice, shall severally continue to hold the said offices, and to receive the Fees, Commissions, and Emoluments attached thereto, and to appoint his or their own Clerks, and to pay the charges and expenses of his or their respective offices in the same manner as if this Ordinance had not been passed, subject, nevertheless as regards the performance of the duties of said offices, to the provisions of this Ordinance.

ministrations

Administra

6. Immediately on the appointment of an Administrator-General Existing Adof British Guiana, all Estates, Trusts and Sequestrations, and all to vest in the Property, moveable and immoveable, in the possession or under the tor-General. administration, power or control of the Administrator-General of C

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