[Ord. 4 anno 1867.] No. XXIV. 13. The certificates herein before mentioned may be given on Certificator, on whose applica the application of any relative or friend of any person believed to op be insane, or of any Justice of the Peace, or of any Clergyman of given. any denomination. ficate. 14. Any Medical Practitioner in the receipt of public pay shall Fee for certi be bound to give such certificate without any charge, and any Medical Practitioner not in the receipt of public pay shall be entitled to receive from the Poor Law Commissioners, out of the funds under their control for providing medical aid for the poor in the rural districts, the sum of five dollars for every such certificate given by him. urgent cases, 15. In any case which the Resident Surgeon of the Lunatic Admission in Asylum may consider urgent, he may admit into the Asylum any and report of, person whom, on examination, he believes to be insane; but he to Governor shall within four days after such admission make a special report of such case to the Governor. in conveyance 16. All Officers of Police shall give proper assistance in the con- Police to assist veyance to either of the Hospitals, or to the Lunatic Asylum, of of Lunatics to Hospital or insane persons; and all reasonable expenses incurred by any persons, Asylum. except the relatives or friends of insane persons, in conveying them Expenses of to either of the Hospitals, or to the Lunatic Asylum, shall be how paid. repaid to such persons by the Poor Law Commissioners out of the funds under their control. conveyance Ordinance No: 17. All persons in custody under the provisions of Ordinance Lunatics in No. 25 of the year 1816, and confined elsewhere than in the Luna. custody under tic Asylum, may at any time be removed there by order of the 25, of 1846, Governor, and may also, at any subsequent time, by order of the dealt with Governor, be replaced in the custody in which they formerly were. how to be Lunatics to be trator General, 18. If any Lunatic in the Lunatic Asylum, shall be possessed Property of of any property the same shall be taken possession of and adminis- administered tered by the Administrator-General of British Guiana, who shall be by Adminis bound, out of the income derived from such property, if such income and to be lia shall be sufficient, and, if it shall not be, then out of the capital of able charge of keeping them M 2 such in Asylum, ble for reason [Ord. 4 anno 1867.] Commence.. ment of Ordinance. No. XXIV. such property, to pay to the Colonial Receiver-General for the uses of the Colony, the reasonable cost and charge of keeping such Lunatic in the Lunatic Asylum. 19. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof. No. 1. SCHEDULE. (Medical Certificate.) (County) (Date) I (name, qualification, and residence in full) do declare that I have this day personally examined with respect to whom I have obtained certain particulars of information given below, and I certify that the said is a person of unsound mind, and in a state to be detained under care and treatment in the Lunatic Asylum. I have formed this opinion on the following grounds : No. 2, (1st. Facts observed by declarant.) (2nd. Facts communicated to him by others.) 6. Condition (married or single) ? 7. How many children? 8. How long insane ? 9. Whether present is the first attack? 10. Has the patient been violent? 11. Has the patient shown any suicidal tendency? 12. Have any of the patient's relatives been insane ? 13. Is the patient, and has he (or she), always been of temperate habits? 14. Can the patient read and write? 15. Has the patient been subject to any illness, and what? 16. Address of patient's nearest relatives or friends ? 17. Any further information that may be considered desirable to give. (There should he stated generally how these particulars have been obtained.) Signature. No. XXV. No. XXV. No. XXV. AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE EFFECTUAL PROVISION AGAINST [Ord. 5 anno SUNDAY TRADING. Enacted 3rd October, 1867, published the 5th following, came into operation on 1st November, 1867. [FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] 1867.1 WHEREAS it is necessary to make provisions more effectual preamble. than those now in force against Sunday Trading: 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: tion. 1. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 1, of the year 1837, and so much Repealing Sec. of the rest of said Ordinance as relates to such Section, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. goods, on Sun. 2. From and after the taking effect of this Ordinance, any Persons openperson who, on Sunday, in any part of British Guiana, shall open or selling or ing stores, &c., any store, shop, house, room, shed, or booth, for the purpose of burtering, &c., selling or bartering therein, or shall sell or barter, or shall expose days, liable to or offer for sale or barter, or shall deliver, any goods, merchan- nalty or impri pecuniary pedize, or commodities, whatever, shall be guilty of a breach of this sonment. Ordinance, and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two months. for act of mem. or person in 3. The owner of any goods, merchandize, or commodities what- Owner of ever, in any store, shop, house, room, shed, or booth, which shall goods, liable be open on Sunday, for the purpose of selling or bartering therein ber of family, any such goods, merchandize, or commodities, and the owner of employ. any goods, merchandize, or commodities whatever, which shall be sold or bartered, or exposed or offered for sale or barter, or delivered, on Sunday, shall be personally liable for any act in breach of this Ordinance committed by any member of his family, or by any person in his employ, in the same manner as if such act had been committed by himself; and any such member of the family, or any such [Ord. 5 anno 1867.] member of No. XXV. Indemnity to such person in the employ, of any such owner, may be examined family, or per- as a witness for or against such owner, on any charge brought son in employ, against such owner under this Ordinance, and if so examined shall not himself thereafter be liable to auy charge in respect of the act forming the ground of such charge against such owner. examined as a witness. 4. No person shall be held guilty of a breach of this Ordinance, Exemptions for selling or delivering any bread, fresh meat, fresh fish, fresh fruit, from operation of Ordinance. fresh vegetables, or ice, on Sunday before the hour of nine o'clock, a.m., or for selling or delivering at any hour on Sunday, medicine or ice required for sick persons, or milk; and no Keeper of any inn, tavern, or eating-house, in Georgetown or New-Amsterdam, shall be held guilty of a breach of this Ordinance for keeping open on Sunday such inn, tavern, or eating-house for the ordinary purposes of his business, or for selling for consumption therein on Sunday any provisions or refreshments which he may lawfully sell therein on any other day of the week. 5. In any information or complaint, or in any conviction, for In information, any breach of this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary to negative not necessary the provisoes contained in the fourth section; and the onus of to negative exemptions. proving that his case comes within one of such provisoes shall rest with the defendant. Who may prosecute. 6. Any person may prosecute for any breach of this Ordinance, and every person prosecuting shall be entitled to one half of any pecuniary penalty that may be realised, and the other half shall be Appropriation paid to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, for the use of the of penalty. Colony, and in support of the Government thereof.* 7. Every charge for a breach of this Ordinance shall be heard Charges, how and determined by a Stipendiary or Special Justice of the Peace, and all proceedings in respect of any such charge shall be carried on according to the provision of, and shall be subject to the review provided by, Ordinance No. 19, of the year 1856. heard and determined. Commencement of Ordinance. 8. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the First day of November in this present year, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven. XXVI. See Ordinance No. 5 of 1872, which provides for the distribution of the proceeds of all fines. penalties, and forfeitures. No. XXVI. XXVI. AN ORDINANCE TO INCORPORATE A COMPANY TO BE CALLED [Ord. 7 anno "THE BRITISH GUIANA MUSEUM COMPANY, LIMITED." Enacted 20th November, 1867, published the 23rd following, came into operation on publication. [FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] 1867.] WHEREAS the Directors of the Royal Agricultural and Com- Preamble? mercial Society of this Colony, and the Directors of a Company which has been formed under the name of "The British Guiana "Museum Company," have petitioned the Governor and Court of Policy, praying them, for certain purposes, to pass an Ordinance for the Incorporation of a Company called "The British Guiana "Museum Company, Limited:" And whereas it is desirable that the prayer of the petition should be granted, and that the Company should be incorporated with limited liability: 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: 1. Edward George Barr, Frederick Augustus Rothwell Winter, Company Joseph Trounsell Gilbert, William Hunter Campbell, Henry Sars- incorporated. field Bascom, Allan Cameron McCalman, James Richard Holligan, Hubert Carlton Whitlock, M.D., George Lillie, Henry Gibbs Dalton, M.D., Alexander Garnett, George Henry Oliver, Adolphus. William Perot, William Branch Pollard, Jr., David Shier, M.D., and John Lucie Smith, and all other persons who have subscribed for, and have had allotted to them, and all the persons who shall hereafter become proprietors of, shares in the stock of the said Company, shall become and remain associated as a Joint Stock Company, for the purposes hereinafter set forth, and they are hereby incorporated by the name and the style of "The British Guiana Museum Company, Limited," and by that name shall be a body incorporated, and shall have succession, and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all Courts whatsoever. |