[Ord. 21 anno 1856.] No. LXXXVII. Any Justice may issue war rant to appre- nance. Any Justice may issue war person, &c., harboured in any premises. 7. Any Justice of the Peace, upon information on oath being made before him that any person has committed or is suspected to have committed an offence against this Ordinance, may issue his warrant to apprehend and bring before some Stipendiary or Special Justice of the Peace the person so charged, in order that he may be dealt with according to law. 8. Any Justice of the Peace may, upon information on oath laid before him that any idle and disorderly person, rogue and vagabond, rant to appre- or incorrigible rogue, is or is reasonably suspected to be harboured hend any idle and disorderly or concealed in any house or place, by warrant under his hand, authorise any Police Officer or Constable, or other person or persons, to enter at any time into such house or place, and to apprehend and bring before some Stipendiary or Special Justice of the Peace every such idle and disorderly person, rogue and vagabond, or incorrigible rogue as shall be then and there found to be dealt with according to law. Within what time offences against this Ordinance to be prosecuted. 9. No prosecution shall be instituted against any person for any offence against this Ordinance after the expiration of one month from the time when such offence shall be committed. 10. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent any StiJurisdiction of pendiary or Special Justice of the Peace from committing a person Supreme and Inferior charged with any offence under the provisions of this Ordinance Criminal Jus. for trial before the Supreme or an Inferior Court of Criminal Justice, tice preserved. as the case may require, nor shall anything in this Ordinance affect Courts of the jurisdiction of any Supreme or Inferior Court of Criminal Justice II. The 49th section of the Ordinance No. 6, of 1855, shall be Section 49 of and the same is hereby repealed. Ordinance No. 6, of 1855, repealed. When Ordi. nance to come nto operation. 12. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof. No. LXXXVIII. No. LXXXVIII. No. LXXXVIII. AN ORDINANCE FOR RAISING A LOAN FOR PAYMENT OF [Ord. 23 anno BOUNTY TO INDIAN IMMIGRANTS.* Enacted 18th August, 1856, published the 6th September following, came into operation on publication. [P. E. WODEHOUSE, Governor.] 1856.] WHEREAS at the Annual Meeting of the Honorable the Court Preamble. of Policy of the Colony of British Guiana, combined with the Financial Representatives of the Inhabitants thereof, it was resolved on the Fifteenth day of May last past, that the Governor and Court of Policy be requested to pass an Ordinance for raising upon the guarantee of the Colonial Revenues such sum as might be required for immediate payment of bounty to such Indian Immigrants as might be entitled to passages back to India and wight be willing to receive such bounty on condition of entering into indentures for a term of five years: And whereas by Ordinance No. 22, of 1856, it was enacted that payment of such bounty should be made by the employers thereof in manner therein described within five years from the time of the signing of such indentures: 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: appointed. 1. The Government Secretary, the two senior Elective Members Bounty Loan of the Court of Policy, the Colonial Receiver-General, and the Commissioners Financial Accountant, for the time being, respectively, shall be and they are hereby declared to be Commissioners for carrying into effect the purposes of this Ordinance; and three of such Commissioners shall form a quorum for the dispatch of business, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. of various 2. The Commissioners, from time to time, upon receiving from Commissioners the Governor an intimation of any sum of money having been ad- to issue Bonds vanced out of the Colonial Revenues, or having become due under amounts, not the Ordinance No. 22, of 1856, after the taking effect of this Ordi- the whole £50,000 to exceed in nauce, sterling. Consolidated by Ordinance 24 of 1831. See Ordinance No. 22 of 1862, Section 10. 923 [Ord. 23 anno 1856.] Commissioners to receive for the Bonds No. LXXXVIII. nance, may issue Bonds in such number as may be sufficient to provide the amount so advanced or payable, and in the form annexed hereto, each of which Bonds shall be either for the sum of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, or of Two Hundred Pounds Sterling, or of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling, or of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to bearer at the expiration of five years after date, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding Six per ceut. per anno, to be paid half-yearly: Provided that the total amount of such Bonds outstanding at any one time shall not exceed Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling. 3. The Commissioners may accept, for any Bonds to be issued by them, any sums of money equal to or exceeding the sums mentioned in the said Bonds respectively, or with the previous sanction with the Gov. of the Governor, any sums of money less than any such sums. sums of equal or greater amount, or ernor's sanc tion, less. by the Com. be deposited some 4. All sums received by the Commissioners under any of the Sums received provisions of this Ordinance shall be deposited in the name of "The missioners to Bounty Loan Commissioners," in such Bauk or Banks as may from in some Bank, time to time be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and and not to be consent of the Court of Policy, in such proportion as may from time cept by order to time be found convenient; and no sum so deposited shall be of three Com- drawn out of any such Bank except upon a bill, cheque, or order, signed by three of the said Commissioners, of whom the Financial Accountant shall always be one. drawn out ex missioners. advice of Court 5. The Governor may, with the advice and consent of the Court Governor with of Policy, from time to time, appoint an agent or agents in London, of Policy, may or elsewhere in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of disposing appoint Agents in the United of the Bonds, for receiving and paying money, and generally for all the purposes of this Ordinance; and all acts done by any such agent or agents, in conformity with the terms of his or their appointment, shall be as good and valid to all intents and purposes as if the same had been done by the Commissioners. Kingdom. 6. The Commissioners shall pay over to the Receiver-General Commissioners the amount declared by the Governor as aforesaid to have been adto pay over to Receiver. vanced or to be payable for bounty; and the Receiver-General shall General hold the same subject to the warrants of the Governor. amount due for bounty. 7. The [Ord, 28 anno 1856.] No. LXXXVIII. with all sums 7. The Receiver-General shall credit the Commissioners with all ReceiverGeneral to sums of money received or recovered by him under the provisions credit Comof the Ordinance No. 22, of 1856, from any Indian immigrant, or missioners from the employers of any Indian immigrant, on account of whom received or recovered by payments shall have been made to him by the Commissioners, accord- him under ing to the preceding section hereof, and no sum so credited shall be Ordinance No. paid out by the Receiver-General, except upon an order signed by three of the said Commissioners, of whom the Financial Accountant shall always be one. 22, of 1856. and any 、་་་ 8. The Commissioners shall, out of the sums to be received under Commissioners the provisions of the preceding section, pay all interest and principal pal and inter to pay princi. becoming due upon the Bonds by them issued; and it shall be law. est of Bonds, ful for the said Commissioners, after making such payments, with balance may the approval of the Governor, to invest any balance remaining to with approval their credit in the hands of the Receiver-General, in such manner of Governor. as to them shall appear most advantageous, be invested nues not pledged, for payment of terest of principal and Bonds. 9. All the Colonial Revenues not specially appropriated by any Guarantee of Ordinance already in force shall, during the continuance of this Colonial Reve Ordinance, be held to be pledged for the payment of the interest otherwise and principal becoming due in respect of the Bonds issued under the provisions hereof; and if at any time the sums which may be credited to the Commmissioners by the Receiver-General, under the preceding provisions of this Ordinance, shall be insufficient to meet any payments so becoming due, the said Commissioners shall report the amount deficient to the Governor, who shall thereupon issue his warrant to the Receiver-General directing him to credit the Commissioners from any public moneys in his hands, with the amount required to make good such deficiency: And the Commissioners shall repay to the Receiver-General any sum so paid by him out of the public moneys whensoever there shall thereafter be a balance. remaining in their hands, after payment of any interest or principal then due upon such Bonds as aforesaid. 10. In case any Bond issued under this Ordinance shall by acci- Defaced Bonds dent be defaced, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners to cause a placed." доп may be re. [Ord. 23 anno 1856.] paid off if overdue. No. LXXXVIII. new Bond to be made and delivered to the bearer, aud to cause the defaced Bond to be cancelled in their presence, and the Bonds s 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 criginal Bond. II. The Commissioners, on proof to their satisfaction that any Bonds lost or Bond issued under this Ordinance has by accident been lost or dedestroyed may be replaced, or stroyed before the same shall have been paid off, may, if the num ber and amount of such Bond shall be ascertained, and upon being furnished with due security for indemnifying 'he Colonial Revenues for any loss to which they may at any time be subjected by reasou thereof, issue a new Bond, corresponding in all respects with the Bond so lost or destroyed: or, if any Bond when so lost or destroyed shall be overdue, may cause the money due thereupon to be paid off and discharged. countant to 12. The Financial Accountant shall keep regular accounts of all Financial Ao the receipts and disbursements of the Commissioners; and a balance keep Accounts sheet of such accounts shall be by him furnished to the Governor and lay balance sheet and to the Court of Policy as soon as practicable after the 31st day before Gover of December in each year. nor and Court of Policy. 13. No person shall have any right of action against "The No right of Bounty Loan Commissioners," or any of them, by reason of the action against Commissioners non-payment of any Interest or Principal which shall be due upon ment of Bonds, any Bond by them issued; but any such action shall be brought but action may against the Receiver-General iu like manner as any action brought be brought against the said officer for the recovery of any other sum due by or from the Colony. for non-pay against Receiver. General. When Ordi. nance take effect 14. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect upon and from the publication thereof. FORM |