[Ord. 2 anno 1868.1 No. XXVII.-XXVIII. Capoey Gaol, respectively: 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: held at Fel Gaol. 1. The Sessions of an Inferior Court of Criminal Justice required Sessions to bel by Ordinance No. 9, of the year 1854, to be held at the Hague lowship and Police Station, in the County of Demerara, shall, in place thereof Suddie in place of at the Hague be held at the Stipendiary Magistrate's Office at Fellowship, in the and Capoey Parish of Saint Luke, in the said County; and the Session of the said Court required by the said Ordinance to be held at Capoey Gaol, in the County of Essequebo, shall in place thereof be held at the Court House at Suddie, in the said last mentioned County; and all prisoners referred for trial at the Hague Police Station or at Capoey Gaol, respectively, and now awaiting trial by an Inferior Court of Criminal Justice, shall be tried at the places in that behalf appointed by this Ordinance; and each of the Puisne Judges shall have the same power to appoint days for the holding of the several Sessions at Fellowship and at Suddie as aforesaid, and of postponing such Sessions as such Judges now have by Law with respect to the several places for the holding of Sessions of an Inferior Criminal Court established by the said Ordinance No. 9, of the year 1854. 2. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commence the publication thereof. ment of Ordinance. No. XXVIII. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO SMALL [Ord. 3 anno PENALTIES. Enacted 28th January, 1868, published the 29th follow ing, came into operation on 1st February, 1868. FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] 1868.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Small Preamble: Penalties: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Ord. 3 anno 1868.1 No. XXVIII. Short Title. Commence. ment of Ordi nance. of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Small Penalties Ordinance, 1868." 2. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the first day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixtyeight. 3. The word "Penalty" in this Ordinance shall include any sum Definition of of money recoverable upon summary conviction. " penalty." 4. Where upon summary conviction any offender may be adRecovery of judged to pay a penalty not exceeding Twenty-four Dollars, exclusmall penalties sive of costs, such offender in case of non-payment thereof, may, without any warrant of distress, be committed to prison for any term not exceeding the period specified in the following scale, unless the penalty and costs shall be sooner paid : Saving as to Ordinance. Not exceeding Two Dollars The Imprisonment not to exceed Seven Days Exceeding Two Dollars, but not exceeding Five Dollars... Fourteen Days Dollars Two Months. 5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the power of imposing hard labour in addition to imprisonment in cases where hard labour might, on non-payment of the penalty, or in default of sufficient distress, have been so imposed if this Ordinance had not been passed. 6. This Ordinance shall apply to penalties, including costs, reApplication of coverable in a summary manner in pursuance of any Ordinance whether passed before or after the taking effect of this Ordinance, and shall apply to costs awarded against a complainant on dismissal of his information or complaint. No. XXIX. No. XXIX. No. XXIX, AN ORDINANCE FURTHER TO REGULATE THE REGISTRAR'S [Ord. 4 anno Enacted 28th January, 1868, published the 29th following, came into operation on 1st February, 1868. [FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] 1868.] WHEREAS on the Twentieth day of November, One Thousand Preamble. Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven, it was resolved by the Honourable the Court of Policy of British Guiana as follows :— "That it is expedient to amend the Ordinance relating to the Registrar's Office, by providing for the payment into a Fee Fund, of the Fees of the Department for the County of Berbice, and the payment from and out of such Fee Fund of fixed salaries to the respective Officers." And whereas a scale of salaries to be paid to the said Officers was thereafter submitted to, and approved by, the said Court; and whereas by reason of the premises it is necessary to amend in certain respects Ordinance No. 3, of the year 1860: 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. Sections 10 and 26 of Ordinance No. 3, of the year 1860, Repealing Sec and Schedule A annexed to such Ordinance, in so far as the said tion. Sections and Schedule relate to the Registrar's Office, Berbice, and so much of the rest of the said Ordinance as is inconsistent with this Ordinance, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. Assistant 2. Her Majesty may appoint an Assistant Sworn Clerk as the Power to Assistant to the Registrar of Berbice in place of the Sworn Clerk appoint an and Notary Public mentioned in Section 3, of Ordinance No. 3, Sworn Clerk. of the Year 1860, if at any time it shall be deemed expedient so to do; anything in the said section to the contrary notwithstanding, 3. From Lord. 4 anno 1868.] Fee:Fund established officers to be No. XXIX. 3. From and after the taking effect of this Ordinance, the fees of the Registrar's Office of Berbice, shall be paid in by the Regisand salaries of trar to the Assistant Receiver-General, Berbice, to the credit of the paid thereont. Registrar's Office, in manner hereinafter provided, and shall form a Fee Fund, to be called "The Registrar's Fee Fund, Berbice," which shall be subject to the appropriation and control of the Governor and Court of Policy, and from and out of which there shall be paid to the officers mentioned in the first Schedule hereunto annexed, the salaries therein specified or such other salaries as shall from, time to time be assigned to them by the Governor and Court of Policy. 4. From and after the taking effect of this Ordinance, every Fees to be document, original or copy, in respect of which any fee shall be entered in Cash Fee Book payable at the Registrar's Office, Berbice, and every receipt for any by Registrar fee of such office, shall upon payment of such fee be entered in the and to be paid over to Assist- book required to be kept in the form in Schedule A annexed to ant Receiver General. Ordinance No. 3, of the year 1860, and which shall be the cash. fee book for the purposes of this Ordinance; and every such document and receipt shall have the number, the year, and the amount of such fee, fairly and legibly written thereon, by the Registrar; and all entries in such cash fee book shall in each year be numbered in arithmetical sequence; and every such fee shall be received by the Registrar, and shall be paid in by him to the Assistant ReceiverGeneral, Berbice, who shall write, or stamp, his name and official designation, under such writing of the Registrar; and immediately on so writing or stamping his name, shall make a corresponding entry of such fee in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and to be called "The Registrar's Fee Fund Book, Berbice," and no document or receipt coming within the provisions of this Ordinance shall, except as provided in the fifth section hereof, be received in evidence in any Court, or by any Judge, Justice of the Peace, or other legal authority in this Colony, without its being so written on or stamped as aforesaid by the Assistant Receiver-General. 5. From and after the taking effect of this Ordinance, no docuDocuments not ment or receipt shall be given off by the Registrar of Berbice, to be given off without its being written on or stamped as aforesaid by the Assisstamped. Pro- tant Receiver-General: Provided that, in cases of arrest or other of emergency. emergency, where documents shall be prepared out of the usual without being viso as to cases | Ord. 4 anno 1868.1 No. XXIX. office hours, the Registrar may give off such documents, and may write interim receipts thereon, dated of the day and hour in which they are given, and such receipts, and the documents on which they are written, may be received in evidence for forty-eight hours after such date, but the Registrar shall, at the time of giving any such interim receipt, write the amount of the fees for which the same shall be given ou a slip of paper, which he shall hand as soon as possible to the Assistant Receiver-General; and within the aforesaid space of forty-eight hours, every such document shall be entered in the said cash fee book, and numbered to correspond with the same, and shall be taken to the Assistant Receiver-General, for the purpose of being written on or stamped as provided in the fourth section hereof; and after the expiration of the said space of fortyeight hours, such document shall not be received in evidence, until the same shall be written on or stamped as aforesaid, by the Assistant Receiver-General. Book. 6. Instead of the Book referred to in section 24 of Ordinance Alteration of No. 2 of the year 1860 as Schedule A, a book in the form annexed form of Record to this Ordinance as Schedule A shall be used and kept by the Registrar of Berbice for the purposes mentioned in said section 24. count monthly ral. 7. On some day not later than the third day of each month, the Registrar to ac Registrar of Berbice shall produce to the Assistant Receiver-General, with Assistant the cash fee book kept by him during the preceding month, together Receiver Genewith an abstract thereof, signed by him, and shall, at the same time, submit a detailed statement, showing also the aggregate of all the expenses of the office of whatever kind, incurred during the preceding month; and from and out of the Fee Fund the Assistant Receiver-General shall, upon warrant of the Governor, pay such expenses, and shall also upon such warrant pay the salaries of the Officers. 8. No Salary of any Copyist shall at any time be considered as Copyist sub. part of the expenses of the Registrar's Office, unless the appoint- ject to Governor's approval. ment of such copyist, and the amount of his salary, shall be sanc. tioned by the Governor. The Governor may, at any time, order the dismissal from the Registrar's Office of any Copyist employed there, whether on salary or not. VOL. IV. N 9. This |