Fees estab its having been so sworn, or of the fact of the person before whom it appears to have been sworn being a Justice of the Peace, or of the signature either of the deponent, or of the Justice of Peace; provided that any person seeking to disprove either of such facts, or the genuineness of either of such signatures, shall be at liberty to do so by evidence. 10. The fees payable to the Provost Marshal for services perlished by Or. formed shall, so long as no alteration shall be made in manner dinance No 27, herein after provided, continue to be as established by Ordinances No. 6, of 1863, No. 27, of 1855, and No. 6, of 1863. of 1855, and to continue. may alter II. The Governor and Court of Policy from time to time, as to Court of Policy them shall seem meet, and by Resolution, may alter any of the fees Tariff of Fees. now established, or may make an entirely new tariff of fees; and such alteration, or such new tariff, shall come into operation, after publication of the same, and of the Resolution relating to the same, for Four weeks in the Official Gazette. 12. The fees payable for arrests and apprehensions of the person, rests, &c., to shall belong to the Marshals making such arrests and apprehensions. Fees for ar belong to Marshals. and recovery 13. No fees shall be payable for any services performed in As to payment criminal cases; and, with respect to Civil cases to which Her Majesty of Fees in the Queen, or the Colony, may be a party, the ordinary fees shall be charged, and may be recovered from the opposite party, but shall not be payable by Her Majesty, or the Colony, unless recovered from the opposite party. Crown cases. be paid. 14. All fees for services performed in the Counties of Demerary Where Fees to and Essequebo, shall be paid at the Office in Georgetown, and all fees for services performed in Berbice, shall be paid at the Office in New Amsterdam. Cash Fee Books how to be kept. 15. There shall be kept in each of the Offices in Georgetown and in New Amsterdam, a Cash Fee Book, in which shall be entered every fee received in such Office, and such Cash Fee Book shall be in such form as the Provost Marshal, with the approval of His Excellency the Governor may establish and, on or before the third day of each mouth, the Provost Marshal in Georgetown and the the Ordinary Marshal in New Amsterdam, shall, respectively, produce such Books, containing the entries of all fees received during the last preceding month, to the Colonial Receiver General and Assistant Receiver General respectively, together with abstracts thereof, signed by the Provost Marshal and such Ordinary Marshal, respectively, and shall then pay over the amounts of such fees to the Receiver General and Assistant Receiver General, respectively, and shall at the same time submit a list of all the expenses of the Offices in Demerary and Essequebo, and in Berbice, respectively, during the preceding month; and the amounts so paid in shall be carried by the Colonial Receiver General and Assistant Receiver Marshal's Foo General, respectively to the credit of a fund to be called the Provost Marshal's Fee Fund, which shall be subject to the approbation and control of the Governor and Court of Policy; and from and out of the whole of such Fund there shall be paid, when warranted by the Governor, the expenses of all the Offices, (including the remuneration of the Clerks and Supernumeraries), and the salaries of the Provost Marshal and the Ordinary Marshals. Fund establisted. be made by 16. The Governor and Court of Policy may, by Resolutions, Regulations to from time to time, if they shall deem it expedien', make regula Court of Potions for checking the amounts received in the Offices of the lioy. Provost Marshal in Georgetown and New Amsterdam, and the entries in the Cash Fee Books there, and the Provost Marshal and the Ordinary Marshals shall be bound to conform to all such regulations. 17. The Provost Marshal shall give security, either in a bond Provost Marshal shall give to be executed by himself and two sufficient sureties, to the satis- Security. faction of the Governor and Court of Policy; and all three, under renunciation of the exceptions ordinis seu excussionis et divisionis, shall bind themselves, jointly and severally, or by the bond of some Guarantee Society (to be approved by the Governor and Court of Policy), which shall be bound,-to and in favour of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, for the true and faithful performance by the Provost Marshal of the duties of his office, and for the due accounting for, and payment and appropriation of, every sum of money which before the execution of such bond shall have been, or thereafter shal to be lia Marshals. thereafter shall be, received by him as Provost Marshal; and such bond shall be a charge on the property moveable and immoveable of each of the persons executing the same, from the date thereof until the same shall be discharged; and the amount of such security shall be fixed, aud may from time to time be varied, by the Governor and Court of Policy, and the Provost Marshal may, on any variation of such amount, be called upon to give fresh security: Provided that it shall not be necessary to execute in either of the Registrars' Offices in this Colony any bond to be given under this Ordinance, but that the original of every such bond. may be deposited or recorded in either of such offices, and every copy given off from either of such offices, of any such bond so deposited or recorded, shall be received in evidence without any proof of the execution of the original. 18. The Provost Marshal shall be liable for all losses, damages, Provost Mar- costs, charges, and expenses, which may be had and suffered by ble for acts of any person, from.or by reason of any irregularity, informality, omission, or neglect of duty, by or on the part of himself, or any Ordinary Marshal, or any other person employed by him, and may be sued in such manner and form as may be applicable to the circumstances of the case, for the recovery of any such losses, damages, costs, charges, or expenses; provided that in every such suit, the Provost Marshal shall be entitled to the protection given by Ordinance No. 31 of the year 1850. shals to be 19. Each Ordinary Marshal shall be responsible to the Provost Ordinary Mar- Marshal, in respect of any liability incurred by the Provost Marshal, responsible to by reason of any irregularity, informality, omission, or neglect of shal for their duty, by or on the part of such Ordinary Marshal. Provost Mar acts. Repealing Commence ment of Ordinance. 20. On the taking effect of this Ordinance, Ordinance No. 29, of the year 1847, and every other law repugnant to, or inconsistent with, this Ordinance, shail be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 21. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the First day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixtynine. No. LI. No. LI. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND IN CERTAIN RESPECTS ORDINANCE [Ord. 8 anno NO. 25 OF THE YEAR 1868, INTITULED, "AN ORDINANCE TO 1869.] "CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING TO LICENCES FOR THE "SALE OF WINE, MALT LIQUOR, AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS." Enacted 19th March, 1869, published the 20th following, came into operation on publication. [JOHN SCOTT, Governor.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend in certain respects Preamble. Ordinance No. 25 of the Year 1868, intituled An Ordinance to "Consolidate the Law relating to Licences for the Sale of Wine, Malt Liquor and Spirituous Liquors": 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. The time within which any charge under Section Sixty-seven Time extended of said Ordinance No. 25 of the Year 1868 is by the said Ordinance charges under for bringing required to be brought, shall be, and the same is hereby, extended Section 67, to the period of Thirty Days from the seizure of the spirituous liquor of 1963. to which such charge relates. Ord. No. 25, uses of their 2. The Controller or Sub-Controller of Rum Duties may, at any Controller time, with the approval and in the discretion of the Excise Board, may issue Special permits to issue a Special Permit, in the form in the Schedule annexed to this Chemiste to have Spiritu. Ordinance, or as near thereto as convenient, to any Licensed ous Liquors on Chemist or Druggist, authorising him to remove to and keep in his Premises for Business Premises any spirituous liquor, not exceeding at any one business. time Fifty Gallons, the precise quantity to be fixed on each occasion by the Excise Board, and of a strength not less than Forty Degrees over proof by Sikes' Hydrometer, for the purpose of being there used exclusively in his trade for the preparation of Medicines, anything in said Ordinance No. 25 of the year 1868, or in Ordinance No. 14 of the year 1855, to the contrary notwithstanding; but such Permit shall not authorise any such Chemist or Druggist to keep or have any such Spirituous Liquor in any place other than in his Business Premises; and every such Chemist and Druggist Chemists to shall be bound to account, to the satisfaction of the Excise Board, Excise Board for the due disposal of all Spirituous Liquor obtained by him under such Liquor. any account to for disposal of [Ord. 3 anno 1869.] Penalty for otherwise keeping or using such Liquor. tions 65 and 66 No. LI. any such Permit, before any new Special Permit shall be issued to him under the authority of this Ordinance; and all Special Permits heretofore issued by the Governor for the purpose aforesaid are hereby confirmed and declared legal and valid. 3. Any Chemist or Druggist, to whom any such Permit shall have been heretofore, or may hereafter be, issued,-who shall keep or have any such Spirituous Liquor in any place other than in his Business Premises, or who shall use or apply, or suffer to be used or applied, any such Spirituous liquor for any purpose whatever, other than for the tond fide preparation of Medicines in the due course of his trade as such Chemist or Druggist,-shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of not Less than Twenty, and not more than Five Hundred, Dollars. 4. The provisions of Sections Sixty-five and Sixty-six of said To whom Sec. Ordinance No. 25 of the year 1868 shall extend aud apply to the of Ordinance holder of any Licence to sell Drugs, and to the Store, Shop, and No. 25 of 1868, Business Premises of any such holder. shall extend. Ord. to be 5. This Ordinanee, and the said Ordinance No. 25 of the year construed with 1868, shall be construed together as one Ordinance. Ord. No. 25 of 1868. Commencement of Ordi pance. 6. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the Publication thereof. SCHEDULE. SPECIAL DRUGGIST'S PERMIT. SPECIAL PERMISSION is, with the approval of the Excise Board, hereby granted to Chemists and Druggists, carrying on business at to remove from the Colonial Bonded Warehouse said Business Premises, for the purpose of being there exclusively used in the preparation of Medicines, and not otherwise, and there to keep and use for the exclusive purpose aforesaid, to Gallous of Rum, the particulars whereof are as follows: Name of Plan tation where Marks of No. of Kind of No. of Degree of Coloured or made. Package. Package. Package. Gallons. Strongth. not Given under my Hand this day of 18 Controller of Rum Duties, |