[Ord. 19 anno 1850.1 ill on board of vessel to be sent to Hos. pital. No. XXXI. 4. And be it enacted, that in all cases where any seaman on Seamen taken board of any such vessel as aforesaid, shall be taken ill or meet with any injury requiring medical or surgical aid, the captain, master, or other person in charge of such vessel, shall send such seaman within twelve hours after he shall have been taken ill or have met with such injury, to the Public Hospital of Demerara and Essequebo, in Georgetown, unless such seaman shall refuse to be sent, or unless he shall be attended on board by a duly qualified medical practitioner; on pain in default thereof of such captain, master, or other person forfeiting and paying a fine of not less than Ten Dollars, nor more than Twenty-three Dollars. without medical aid. 5. And be it enacted, that in the event of any seaman dying on Seamen dying board of any vessel lying within the limits of the port of Georgetown from any visible disease which shall have existed more than twenty-four hours, without having been attended by a duly qualified medical practitioner, the captain, master, or person in charge of the vessel on board of which such death shall occur, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than Twenty-three Dollars, nor more than Forty-eight Dollars, unless it be shewn that such seaman shall have refused to be so sent to the Public Hospital as aforesaid. Quarantine Laws preserved. Board of 6. And be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner interfere with the Quarantine Laws when in force, nor extend to nor be construed to extend to vessels in the said river when under quarantine. 7. And be it enacted, that there shall be a Board of Directors of the Public Hospital of Demerara and Essequebo, and that such Board shall consist of ten persons, to be nominated from time to time by the Governor and Court of Policy, and who respectively shall serve for two years, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any Meetings which shall be held by the said Directors at the said Hospital, on such days as the President, to be chosen by a majority of themselves, shall appoint. 8. And be it enacted, that any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors shall be forthwith reported to the Governor and Court Director to be of Policy by the Secretary to the Board, and that it shall be lawful Vacancy in office of filled up. for [Ord: 19 anno 1850.] No. XXXI. for the Governor, with or without the advice of this Court, to fill up such vacancy. Directors. 9. And be it enacted, that the said Board of Directors shall, as Duties of often as is necessary, advertise for tenders for supplies, and shall Board of accept of such tenders if approved of, upon such terms, conditions, and security for the delivery of them, of good quality, and in such quantities as may from time to time be required, and that all supplies shall be subject to rejection by the Colonial Surgeon-General with liberty to the Contractor to appeal to the Board of Directors to order a survey, he the Contractor supplying other articles for use in the meantime; and that all accounts shall be certified by the Colonial Surgeon-General before being presented to the Board of Directors to be passed. 10. And be it enacted, that the said Directors shall, in such Directors to order or rotation, and at such times as may be agreed upon by in rotation. visit Hospital them, visit and inspect the said Hospital and the several Departments thereof. II. And be it enacted, that the Members of this Court, the afore- Visitors said Directors, and the officiating Ministers of all Churches and appointed. Chaplains in the Colony, shall be Visitors of the said Public Hospital; and that a book, called the Visitor's Book, shall be kept, in which any visitor may note down any matter which he wishes to be brought to the notice of the Board of Directors, and that such book shall be produced at each ordinary meeting of the Board of Directors. of officers to.be 12. And be it enacted, that the Board of Directors shall, from Monthly wages time to time, fix the monthly wages to be paid to the steward, matron, fixed. and all inferior officers and servants, male or female, of the said Public Hospital. geon chief inferior offi. 13. And be it enactd, that the Colonial Surgeon-General shall Colonial Surbe the chief medical officer in charge of the said Public Hospital, medical officer, and that there shall be also one or more resident Surgeons, a Dis- and to appoint penser of medicines, and a Secretary to the Board of Directors, all cers. at such salaries respectively as may be provided by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Honorable the Court of Policy thereof, combined with the Financial Representatives [Ord. 19 anno 1850.] geon-General to frame a scale of fine No. XXXI. Representatives of the Inhabitants of the said Colony, and who shall be respectively appointed by the Governor; and that the steward, matron, and all inferior officers and servants shall be appointed by and be under the immediate control of the Colonial Surgeon-General. 14. And be it enacted, that the Colonial Surgeon-General, subColonial Sur- ject to the approval of the Board of Directors, shall frame a scale of fines and penalties applicable to the inferior officers and servants and penalties of the Hospital, and rules and regulations for enforcing the same, and out of the fund arising from such fines and penalties shall award, once in each year, gratuities to the best conducted and most deserving officers and servants. for inferior officers. for admission to Hospital. 15. And be it enacted, that every application for admission into Applications the Hospital shall be made to the Colonial Surgeon-General, or to the resident Surgeon at the Hospital, who shall grant or reject such application; and that the Colonial Surgeon-General shall be authorised and empowered to discharge any patient labouring under chronic or incurable disease, furnishing him with a certificate that he is not a fit object for Hospital treatment, which certificate shall be considered a recommendation for relief from the Board of Church and Poor's Fund, or from the Board of Poor Law Guardians of the parish to which he may belong, unless he have friends able to maintain him. 16. And be it enacted, that in the event of its being shewn to Patients capa- the satisfaction of the Board of Directors that any person who has ble of paying, compellable received gratuitous medical treatment in the Hospital is possessed to do so. of property sufficient to enable him to defray the whole or any portion of the expense of his maintenance and medical treatment, the Secretary to the Board of Directors shall demand from such person payment at the rate of One Dollar for every day such person shall have been in said Hospital, and if payment of the sums demanded shall not be made within ten days after such demand, the Secretary, under the title and description of "The Secretary of the Public Hospital of Demerara and Essequebo," shall be as he is hereby authorised to sue for and recover the same according to Law. Ward for pa. tients capable of paying. 17. And be it enacted, that the Board of Directors shall set apart one or more wards of the Hospital for the accommodation of patients who [Ord. 19 anno 1850.] No. XXXI. who, not requiring gratuitous relief, may be desirous of entering the Hospital for medical or surgical aid, and such wards shall be kept distinct from the other wards of the Hospital. 18. And be it enacted, that any person producing a recommenda- Payments by tion from a Director of the Hospital, and paying in advance weekly such patients the sum of Four Dollars, shall be admitted into the said Hospital, advance. and shall be entitled to receive and enjoy all the advantages of patients in said Hospital. [Section 19 repealed by Ordinance 4, anno 1864.] Not in vol 3. the use of the 20. And be it further enacted, that all fines and penalties in- Fines and curred under this Ordinance may be sued for and recovered before penalties for any Justice of the Peace or Court having jurisdiction to the amount Colony. of such fines and penalties, which, when recovered, shall be paid 218 over to the Receiver-General for the use of the Colony. 21. And be it enacted, that the Board of Directors shall be, as Board of Di they are hereby authorised to make all such rules and regulations rectors to make as may to them seem necessary for the supplies, good order, internal Regulations for Hospital. arrangements, and government of said Hospital, and from time to time to repeal, add to, alter, or vary all or any such rules and regulations; and that as soon as all such rules and regulations shall be confirmed by this Court, the Demerara Colonial Hospital Regulations, approved and confirmed by this Court on the twentieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be repealed: Provided always, that such new rules and regulations, additions or alterations, be not inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, and shall not take effect until they shall have been laid before the Governor and Court of Policy, and by them confirmed by resolution. clause. 22. And be it enacted, that in the construction of this Ordinance Interpretation every word importing the singular number only, shall extend and be applied to several persons, matters, or things, as well as to one person, matter, or thing; every word importing the plural number, shall extend and be applied to one person, matter, or thing, as well as to several persons, matters, or things, every word importing the masculine gender only, shall extend and be applied to a female as well [Ord. 19 anno 1850.] No. XXXI.—XXXII. well as to a male, unless in any of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. No. XXXII. [Ord. 29 anne AN ORDINANCE TO FACILITATE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE 1850.] Preamble. 11 and 12 Vict. €. 42. For what tice of the Peace may grant a war- mons to cause DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, OUT OF SESSIONS, Enacted 13th December, 1850, published the 25th follow- [HENRY BARKLY, Governor.] WHEREAS it would conduce much to the improvement of the administration of Criminal Justice within the Colony of British Guiana if the several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances relating to the duties of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace therein with respect to persons charged with indictable offences, were consolidated, with such additions and alterations as may be deemed necessary, and that such duties should be clearly defined by positive enactment : 1. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy offences a Jus- thereof, that in all cases where a charge or complaint (A) shall be made before any one or more of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the Colony of British Guiana, that any person has committed, or is suspected to have committed, any treason, felony, or indictable charged there- misdemeanour, or other indictable offence whatsoever within the brought before limits of said Colony, or that any person guilty or suspected to be guilty of having committed any such crime or offence beyond or out of the limits of the Colony, is residing or being or is suspected to reside or be within the limits of the said Colony, then and in every such case, if the person so charged or complained against shall not then be in custody, it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices of him. the |