the Money, or the valuable Security sent by the Post in respect of which the offence shall have been committed, shall have passed in due course of conveyance or delivery by the post, in the same manner as if it had been actually committed in such county or place.

laid in Indict

ment.

state value of

16. In every case where an offence shall be committed in respect Property, how of a Post Letter Bag or a Post Letter, or a Chattel, Money, or valuable Security, or a Newspaper, Parcel, Official Document, or printed Paper as aforesaid sent by the Post, it shall be lawful to lay in the indictment or charge to be preferred against the offender the property of the Post Letter Bag or of the Post Letter, or Chattel or Money, or the valuable Security or Newspaper Parcel, Official Document or printed Paper, as aforesaid, sent by the Post in the Colonial Postmaster, without naming him, and it shall not Necessary to be necessary in the indictment or charge to allege or to prove upon Property. the trial or otherwise that the Post Letter Bag, or any such Post Letter or valuable Security, or Newspaper, Parcel, Official Document, or printed Paper as aforesaid was of any value; and in any indictment or charge, to be preferred against any person employed Employment under the Post Office for any offence committed under this Ordi- Office of person nance it shall be lawful to state and allege that such an offender charged how was employed under the Post Office of the Colony at the time of the committing of such offence, without stating further the nature or particulars of his employment.

17. Whenever imprisonment, with or without hard labour, be awarded for any indictable offence under this' Ordinance, Court may sentence the offender to be imprisoned and kept to labour, in any common gaol or on any public work.

under Post

stated.

hard

Common Gaol or in any pub. lic work.

finement.

18. Whenever solitary confinement may be awarded for any Solitary conindictable offence under this Ordinance, the Court may direct the offender to be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of his imprisonment, or of his imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year; and whenever whipping may be awarded for any indictable offence under this Ordinance, the Court may sentence the offender to be once privately whipped, and the number Whipping. of strokes and the instrument with which they shall be inflicted shall be specified by the Court in the sentence.

19. Whenever

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Fine.

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19. Whenever any person shall be convicted of any indictabie Misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance, the Court may, if it shall think fit, in addition to, or in lieu of, any of the punishments by this Ordinance authorized, fine the offender, and require him to enter into his own recognizance and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace and being of good behaviour; and in case of any felony punishable under this Ordinance the Court may, if it In Felonies. Security to shall think fit, require the offender to enter into his own recogkeep the peace nizance, and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace, in addition to any punishment by this Ordinance authorized: Pro vided that no person shall be imprisoned under this clause for not finding sureties for any period exceeding one year.

keep the peace,

&c.

Proviso.

20. This Ordinance shall be construed with and shall form part This Ordinance of Ordinance No. 22 of the year 1862, intituled "An Ordinance, to to form part of Ordinance No. "consolidate and amend the law relating to larceny and other simi"lar offences."

22 of 1862.

When Ordinance to take offoot

21. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the first day of July in this present year, one thousand eight bundred and sixty-six.

No. XVII.

[Ord. 10 anno AN ORDINANCE TO ALTER AND AMEND IN CERTAIN RESPECTS 1866. "THE ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL'S ORDINANCE, 1865."

Preamble..

Enacted 25th May, 1866, published on the 26th following, came into operation on publication.

[FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] WHEREAS it is expedient to alter and amend in certain respects

"the Administrator General's Ordinance, 1865;" 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

1. Sections 21 to 24, both inclusive, 32 and 33, 75 and 100, of Repeal Clause. "The Administrator-General's Ordinance, 1865," shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

2. The Administrator-General is hereby authorised and em- Administrator, powered for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to enter upon and General to take possession of take possession of and administer to all estates within the Colony unrepresented which shall be at the time of his appointment, or at any time there. Estates. after, unrepresented, and such unrepresented estates shall be, and they are hereby defined to be, as follows:

Definition of

Firstly-The estate of every person who shall be absent from the Colony, and who shall not be represented by any attor- unrepresented ney or agent in the Colony :

Secondly-The estate of every person who shall die intestate,

and whose estate shall not be adiated and taken possession
of by the heir, or by the attorney or agent of such heir:

Thirdly-The estate of every person who shall die testate and whose executor shall neglect, refuse, or be unable to act, or whose heir shall repudiate the inheritance, or fail to adiate the same :

Fourthly-All immoveable property belonging to any absent owner who shall not be represented by any attorney or agent in the Colony :

Fifthly-All goods, wares, and merchandize sent on consignment to any person whose estate shall be unrepresented:

Sixthly-All estates, trusts, and sequestrations in the possession or under the administration of or held by the late Administrator General of Demerary and Essequebo, or of Berbice, according to the nature and kind thereof respectively:

Seventhly-All other estates property and effects which, not

falling under any of the foregoing descriptions, shall be
unrepresented: But nothing in this Ordinance is intended.

to

Estates.

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to require the Administrator-General to administer to the estate or effects of any officer or person. dying in the naval or military service of her Majesty, and subject to the articles of war, or of any deceased seaman or apprentice, for the administration of whose estate or effects provision is made by an act of the Imperial Parliament.

3. Whenever the Administrator-General shall take possession of How Adminis- the Estate or Property of any absent owner as being unrepresented, shall proceed he shall give immediate notice thereof to such absent owner by! on taking pos- letter, if his address be known, and also by advertisement in the session of Estate of absent Official Gazette; and it shall be his duty to use due diligence to inform

owner.

Proviso.

Sub-Administrator for Ber bice, when

such absent owner of his having so taken possession; and the Administrator-General shall administer such Estate or Property according to the usual legal course of administration in this Colony by the Attorneys of absent parties until some person shall be appointed by such absent owner to act on his behalf as Attorney or Agent, or until the administration shall be otherwise duly terminated Provided always that where any absent owner shall be known, the Administrator-General shall not take possession of his Estate or Property as unrepresented without first communicating with him in writing, except in cases of emergency which in the opinion of the Administrator-General do not admit of delay, when for the protection of the interests of such absent owner or of his creditors, he may take immediate possession.

4. The Sub-Administrator for Berbice, whenever thereto autho rised by the Administrator-General in writing, shall have full power authorised by and authority to perform all or any of the duties of the Adminis trator-General in the said County of Berbice, including the passing of Transports.

Administrator
General in

writing, to
perform

all duties in Berbice.

Produce of
Plantations,

how to be sold,

5. All produce of any plantation under the Administration of the Administrator-General, or under sequestration, except the same shall be bound in consignment, shall be publicly sold in the Colony for cash, by tender, after at least two days previous advertisement, or otherwise for cash, as the Administrator-General may consider best for the interests of the Estate.

6. In classifying the claims of creditors of Estates under his Order of pre- administration or of which he shall be Official Assignee according alaims against to their rank or priority of preference, the Administrator General Estates

ference of

shall

shall class as preferent, and in the order in which they are hereinafter set down, the following claims, that is to say :

Firstly-Funeral Expenses :

Secondly-Medical attendance and Medicines for the four Months preceding the decease:

Thirdly-Taxes, imposts, dues, debts, and sums of money due to
Her Majesty, or to the Government of the Colony :

Fourthly-Local, Municipal, Village, and Parochial Rates,
Taxes, and Assessments :

Fifthly-Wages due to Clerks for six months, and to Salesmen in Retail Provision Shops and Menial and other Servants on Monthly Wages, for the month preceding the death or adjudication of Insolvency, and the month in which the death or adjudication shall occur.

Sixthly-Arrears of rent due for a period of six months antecedent to the time when the estate shall devolve to the administration of the Administrator General; provided that the Administrator General shall not pay out of the estate a larger amount of rent than the proceeds of the sale of the moveables on the premises at the time of such devolution subject to all legal charges of the removal and sale of such moveables and all legal commissions on the proceeds of the sale of such moveables :

Seventhly-Mortgages according to their nature and priority of their dates.

7. This Ordinance shall be construed with and form part of This Ordinance "The Administrator-General's Ordinance, 1865."

8. This Ordinance shall come into operation, and take effect on

the publication thereof.

to form part of "The Administrator General's Ordinanca 1865," Commencement of Ordinance.

No. XVIII.