Convicts, pardoned (1855) (WA)

W ESTER1\ ATISTRALI A.

ANNO OCTODECIMO.

VICTORIA] REGINA..

No. I.

An Odinance to regulate the Forms to be observed by Pardoned Convicts prior to their leaving the Colony.

HEREAS it is expedient that no pardoned convict should preamble,

his pardon to some proper,officer, r,to be by such officer compared withWleave the colony of Western Australia without first spewing

the description and indorsed ; so that pardons may never be trans- ferred; and whereas great inconvenience may arise from unpardoned

convicts

18th Viet. No. 1. 1855.

wrong man embarking. convicts leaving the colony under false pretence of having obtained

their conditional pardons ;—Be it therefore enacted, by His Excel- lency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,. that every person professing to be a pardoned convict, before embark- ing on board any vessel about to sail either from Fremantle or any other port or part of the coast of the said colony, shall produce his par-

Superintendent Water don to the Resident Magistrate orthe Superintendent of Water Police	Resident Magistrate or
Pollee to endorse. at or nearest to the place of embarkation ; and provided such Magis-

trate or Superintendent be duly satisfied concerning the pardon and the description of the person, and other matters at his discretion, he shall endorse the same, and such endorsement shall be sufficient authority for such pardoned convict to embark on board any vessel about to leave the colony.

IL THAT every pardoned convict who shall be found on board any ship or vessel with intent to leave the colony, and who shall not have his pardon so endorsed as herein directed, shall be taken before a Justice of the Peace, and, on conviction thereof before any such

Penalty £10,	Justice, fined a sum not exceeding ten pounds, or be imprisoned for any period not exceeding six calendar months, with or without hard labour, at the discretion of the convicting Justice.
III. THAT the sections A, B and F of the Shortening Ordinance,. 1853, shall be, and the same are hereby incorporated with this Ordinance.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN CHIEF,

Passed the legislative C Council,

this 12th day of April, 1855.	j
A. O'GRADY LEFROY.

Clerk of the Council.

Printed by authority of the Government, by E, Perth.