Be it enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as Short title. "The Treasury and Customs Ordinance, 1885." Collector and 2. On and after the first day of October, 1885, the office Office of of Collector of Customs and Treasurer of the Gold Coast Treasurer Colony shall be and is hereby abolished. abolished. Treasurer troller of 3. From and after the first day of October, 1885, the Duties of duties at present devolving upon the Collector of Customs and Compand Treasurer shall devolve upon the Treasurer and upon Customs. the Comptroller of Customs who shall each of them discharge such portion of those duties as may from time to time be assigned to them by the Governor.* 4. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time Future apand whenever the office of Treasurer or Comptroller of pointments. Customs is vacant, to appoint a Treasurer or a Comptroller of Customs to such vacant office subject to the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. to appoint Customs. 5. From and after the passing of this Ordinance it shall Governor be lawful for the Governor from time to time as occasion offerin may require and subject to the approval of one of Her Treasury and Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to appoint further and other officers in both the Treasury and Customs departments of the Colony and such officers shall discharge such duties in connection with their respective departments as may be assigned to them by the Governor or the head of their department and where by law or any regulation. such duties have to be done by or with any particular officer, when done by or with any officer appointed as aforesaid they shall be taken to have been and be deemed to have been done by or with such particular officer, and shall be as valid as if they had been done by or with such particular officer. clause. 6. Nothing in this Ordinance enacted shall be construed Saving as in any way invalidating existing appointments in the * Duties assigned, 1st October, 1885. See Appendix, p. 1118. Treasury and Customs departments, and, until otherwise ordered, the Assistant Collector and Treasurer, District Commissioners and all other officers of the department shall continue to discharge the duties hitherto discharged by them whether they relate to the Treasury or Customs department or to both. Short title. £2,200 per annum to be paid to the Imperial Government as a subsidy. What shall constitute a CABLE SUBSIDY. Ordinance No. 6 of 1886. AN ORDINANCE providing for a subsidy in aid of a certain Telegraph Cable out of the Revenues of the Gold [2nd October, 1886. Coast Colony. WHEREAS it is expedient to pay for twenty years out of the revenues of the Colony a subsidy in aid of a telegraph cable which has been laid to this Colony by the African Direct Telegraph Company Limited; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Telegraph Cable Subsidy Ordinance, 1886." 2. There shall be, and there is hereby granted out of the revenues of this Colony, the sum of two thousand two hundred pounds per annum, to be paid to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury as a subsidy in aid of the said telegraph cable annually, for twenty years, such payment to take effect from a date to be declared by the Governor in writing under his hand and published in the Gazette. 3. The receipt of the officer for the time being in charge valid receipt of the Imperial Treasury chest on the Gold Coast, or of for payment. Her Majesty's Paymaster-General in London, or any officer of his department, duly authorised, shall be a sufficient proof of the payment of any instalment of the subsidy granted by this Ordinance. CUSTOMS TARIFF.* Ordinance No. 5 of 1887. AN ORDINANCE amending the Customs Tariff Ordinance. [7th April, 1887. WHEREAS it is desirable to vary the Customs Duties now. payable in the Gold Coast Colony. Be it enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: and com 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Customs Tariff Short title. Ordinance, 1887," and shall come into operation on the mencement. first day of January, 1888. Customs in 2. Upon and from and after the commencement of this Duties of Ordinance, in lieu and instead of all other duties of customs, Schedule to there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto Her be paid. Majesty for the use of the Government of the Gold Coast Colony, upon goods imported into any part of the Colony, the several duties of customs as the same are respectively inserted, described and set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed. 3. No duties of customs shall be charged or levied upon any wines, spirits, or tobacco which shall have been warehoused without payment of duty on the first entry thereof or duly entered and landed to be warehoused, although not actually deposited in the warehouse and delivered for exportation, and duly exported by sea to any place beyond the limits to which this Ordinance extends, but no drawback shall be allowed on any goods exported in respect of any duties of customs paid thereon. *Repealed by No. 12 of 1898 when going to press. housed goods may be exported free Certain of duty. SCHEDULE. TABLE OF DUTIES. On wine, ale, porter and beer of every sort, the old wine gallon or ... ... ... ... £ 8. d. 01 0 026 0011 0 ... On manufactured tobacco, cigars, or snuff, the pound or part thereof 0 00 0 On firearms of any description, each On cartridges filled, the hundred or part thereof. 0 2 210026110 On cartridges unfilled, the hundred or part thereof 0 0 1 60460000* 0001 MARINE INQUIRIES. Ordinance No. 13 of 1887. AN ORDINANCE to authorize the Divisional Courts of the Gold Coast Colony to inquire into such cases as are enumerated in the 3rd section of "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial Inquiries) Act, 1882." * [1st September, 1887. WHEREAS by the 4th section of an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland intituled an Act to amend the "Merchant Shipping Acts 1854 to 1880 with respect to Colonial Courts of Inquiry" it is enacted "The legislative authority in any British possession is hereby empowered to authorize Courts or tribunals to make inquiries in the cases enumerated in the last preceding * This Act was repealed by 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 745. section of this Act into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers of ships, or as to shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships, subject to the provisions in the last preceding section of this Act mentioned." Be it enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Marine Short title. Inquiries Ordinance, 1887." Court autho 2. The Divisional Courts of the Supreme Court of the Divisional Gold Coast Colony are hereby authorized to make inquiries rized to make in the cases enumerated in the 3rd section of the herein- inquiries. before in part recited Act. with assessors. 3. Where any inquiry is instituted under the provisions Judge may of this Ordinance and the said in part recited Act, it shall is be lawful for the presiding Judge in his discretion to call to his aid any person or persons not being more than three who from his or their special knowledge such Judge is of opinion can assist him in his inquiry, and every such Remuneration person who attends and assists the Judge throughout any inquiry shall be termed an assessor and shall receive such remuneration for his service not exceeding five pounds per diem as the Judge conducting the inquiry shall allow. of assessors. of assessors whom to be 4. The remuneration of the assessors and all costs of Remuneration inquiries instituted under this Ordinance and the said in part and costs of recited Act, shall be paid by the same persons as the same inquiries by would be payable by had the inquiry been conducted before paid. the Wreck Commissioner in England, provided always that where in England such remuneration or costs would be payable out of the Consolidated Fund or by any public department such remuneration or costs shall be paid in this Colony out of the general revenue thereof. give their dissent but 5. Where any inquiry under this Ordinance and the Assessors to said in part recited Act is held with an assessor or assessors, opinion and every assessor shall give his opinion orally and should he may record dissent from any decision of the Court may record on the decision to minutes his dissent and the grounds thereof, but the deci- rest with Judge alone. sion of the Court shall in all cases rest with the Judge alone. |