Ordinance No. 17 of 1864, and also of making up the new Streets of Robbs Town and building a Stelling and Sluice in said Ward. the Colonial Renear to issue Bonds such bearing inter. ceiver-General 2. The Colonial Receiver-General for and on behalf of Colony, shall issue Bonds in the form annexed hereto, or as thereto as circumstances admit, each payable to bearer for sum as the Governor shall approve, to an amount not exceeding in the whole One Hundred Thousand Dollars, and bearing interest payable half-yearly at the rate of six per centum per annum, and which Bouds shall be payable respectively at such times as the Governor shall approve, not exceeding in any case twenty years from the date of issue. est. nial Revenues. 3. All the Colonial Revenues not specially appropriated by any Security for Ordinance already in force shall be held and are hereby declared Loan on Colo. to be pledged for the payment of the Interest and Principal to be. come due in respect of the said Bonds. placed. 4. In case any Bond issued under this Ordinance shall by acci- Defaced Bond dent be defaced, the Colonial Receiver-General may issue a new may be reBond to the bearer, and may cause the defaced Bond to be cancelled, and the Bends so cancelled shall be filed, and the new Bond shall bear the same number, date, and principal sum, and carry the same interest, and be subject to the same rules as the original Bond. may be re 5. The Colonial Receiver General, on proof to his satisfaction, Lost Bond that any bond issued under this Ordinance has by accident been placed, or if lost or destroyed before the same shall have been paid off, may, if due paid off. the number and amount of such Bond shall be ascertained, and upon being furnished with due security for inde.unifying him for any loss to which the Colony may at any time be subjected by reason thereof, issue a new Bond corresponding with the lost or destroyed Bond, or if any Bond when so lost or destroyed shall be overdue, may cause the money due thereupon to be paid off and discharged. 6. The moneys to be raised under this Ordinance shall be lent Application of and advanced by the Colonial Receiver-General to the Mayor and the Lean and Town Council of Georgetown, for the purposes aforesaid, in such thereof by the re-payment Mayor and amounts Town Counen. amounts respectively as the Governor shall from time to time be pleased to direct, and the whole amount of the said Loan shall be repaid by the Mayor and Town Council of Georgetown to the Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the Colony, with interest at the rate aforesaid, in twenty years from the date of the advance, by half-yearly payments on the first day of January and July in each year, and in the manner following, that is to say, during the first two years they shall pay interest half-yearly on the entire capital of the Loan, and during the next eighteen years they shall pay by half-yearly instalments the said capital, together with the interest on such portions thereof as may be then outstanding. 7. The Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the Preferent lien Colony, shall have and is hereby declared to have a preferent lien of the Colony on the Muni- upon the property, revenues, rates and taxes, of the Mayor and cipal Rates Town Council of George'own, subject to any existing liens thereon, for repayment of the said Loans with interest in the manner and by the instalments aforesaid. and Property. Right of Re Lien to continue until 8. In case of default of payment by the Mayor and Town Council of any one or more of the said instalments as and when the same shall respectively fall due and become payable, the Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the Colony, may proceed forthwith by parate or summary execution against the Mayor and Town Council, and levy upon the property, revenues, rates and taxes of the said Corporation, and recover from the sale thereof the amount of every such unpaid instalment with interest. 9. The preferent lien hereby created in favour of the Colony shall continue in full force and effect until the whole amount of the Loan repaid. said Loan shall have been repaid by the Mayor and Town Council, with interest, to the Colonial Receiver-General. Commence ment of Orria tance.. 10. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect ou the publication thereof, SCHEDULE. No. I.-II. SCHEDULE. BRITISH GUIANA, Ordinance No. 2, of 1865. SECTION 2.-"The Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the Colony, shall issue Bonds in the form annexed here. to or as near thereto as circumstances admit, each payable to bearer for such sum as the Governor shall approve, to an amount rot exceeding in the whole One Hundred Thousand Dollars, and bearing interest payable half-yearly at the rate of six per cen. tum per annum, and which Bonds shall be pay. able respectively at such times as the Governor shall approve, not exceed. ing in any case twenty years from the date of issue. SECTION 3.-"All the Colonial Revenues not specially appropriated by any Ordinance already in force shall be held and are hereby declared to be pledged for the payment of the Interest and Principal to become due in respect of the said Bonds." BRITISH GUIANA, FORM OF BOND. Oity Improvement Loan Bond. No. 1, the Colonial Receiver-General of British Guiana, in For the punctual payment of the Interest half-yearly [Ord. 2 anno 1865.] AN ORDINANCE TO EXPLAIN AND AMEND THE LAW RE- [Ord. 3 anno LATING TO GAOL DELIVERY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Enacted 9th February, 1865, published the 11th follow ing, came into operation on publication. [FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] 1865.] WHEREAS in and by the 37th Section of Ordinance No. 27, Preamble. of the year 1846, it is enacted that every Session of the Supreme Court [Ord. 3 anno 1865.] The County Gaols to be delivered. ver lists of No. II. Court of Criminal Justice shall and may be had and holden by and before any one or more of the Judges of the Supreme Courts of British Guiana, in the same manner, and with the same powers and authority as any Judge of Assize, or of oyer aud terminer, or of gaol delivery, is wont and accustomed to have and to hold any criminal session in any part of England; and whereas the gaols which are thereby intended to be delivered are not named in any Ordinance now in force, and it is expedient to specify the several gaols to be so delivered at such sessions, and also the persons in custody who shall be entitled to the benefit of such gaol delivery; and whereas it is fur her expedient to make special provision with respect to the place of confinement for prisoners, commonly known as the Convict Depot, and to provide for the establishment of other gaols within the Colony, if at any time it shall be deemed desirable to erect the same: Be it therefore enacted by Ilis Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows: I. The Gaols which shall be delivered at the respective Sessions of the Supreme Court of Criminal Justice held in and for the several Counties of the Colony, shall be the respective County Gaols, that is to say, the Gaols of George Town, Capoey, and New Amsterdam, and no other: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy, at any time, to establish by Proclamation to be published in the Official Gazette, the County Gaol in and for the County of Essequebo at some place in said County other than Capoey, and thereupon the Gaol so established shall be deemed to be and considered the County Gaol of Essequebo. 2. The keeper of each of the said County Gaols, shall, on the Gaoler to deli first day of every Session of the Supreme Court of Criminal Justice Prisoners in his held in the County in which such Gaol is situate, deliver in open custody, await ing trial or Court to the presiding Judge, a correct list of all Persons in his committed in custody upon any Criminal charge who shall not have been then default of sureties. tried, or upon whom Sentence shall not have been then passed, or who shall have been committed in default of Sureties to keep the Peace or otherwise, distinguishing as accurately as may be, their names, ages, and sexes, with the dates of their respective commitments, and the authority under which every such prisoner was so committed; committed; and such Keeper shall bring and produce in open Court on such days and times of such Session, and in such numbers as the Court may direct, each and every person so in his custody upon any criminal charge awaiting trial, or upon whom sentence shall not have been passed, or committed in default of sureties as aforesaid. ing to be put be tried or of absence of 3. If any person who on the first day of any such Criminal Prisoner pray. Sessions shall appear to be in actual custody awaiting his trial at on his trial to such Session, shall at any time during such Session, in open discharged on Court, pray by himself or by his Counsel, to be then and there Bail put upon his trial, the Court shall before the termination of such Session, either proceed to the trial of such person or discharge him upon bail to appear at the next ensuing Criminal Session, and answer any indictment which may be then preferred against him: Provided, nevertheless, that if it shall appear to the satisfac- Proviso in case tion of the Court that any material witness for the prosecution cannot material witbe produced at such first-mentioned Session, the Court may either pess for the discharge such prisoner upon bail as aforesaid or may remand him. for trial at the next ensuing Criminal Session; but if any such prisoner being a second time produced before the Court shall pray then and there to be put upon his trial, the Court shall before the termination of the Session, either proceed to the trial of such prisoner or discharge him upon bail, any absence of witnesses for the prosecution notwithstanding. Prosecution. at the close of 4. The Court at the close of every such session shall discharge A Gaol Deliall prisoners not under sentence, remaining in the gaol of the very to be held county in which such Session shall be held, who by the law of each Session. England would be then entitled to their discharge upon gaol delivery, and also all other accused persons referred for trial at such session remaining uutried who by the said law would be entitled to such discharge; and the Court may also discharge all prisoners remaining in such goal in default of sureties as aforesaid, who in the opinion of the Court ought to be so discharged. 5. The place of confinement commonly known as the Convict Kingston Depot in the district of Kingston in the City of Georgetown, shall Branch Caol henceforth be styled and designated the Kingston Branch Gaol, and constituted. |