I, FORM OF CANTEEN LICENCE. on this residing at day of and who has distributor of stamps in the district of 18-, do hereby authorise and empower produced to me the certificate required by law to sell wines, spirituous liquors, and malt liquors in the manner by law permitted with respect to holders of canteen licences at and not elsewhere, for from the longer. day of do hereby certify that to receive a canteen licence for selling wines, spirituous and malt liquors at 18-, and no is entitled in Preamble. No. 14. Holders of can alone disqualifi &c., diamonds. No. 18. (1)-Sd. Henry Barkly.] [September 17, 1872. Proclamation amending Third, Thirteenth, and Twentieth WHEREAS it is desirable to explain and amend certain of my Proclamation No. 2 of 1872, bearing date at Cape Town the 10th day of August, 1872, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and make known as follows, that is to say: 1. The third and twentieth sections of the Proclamation teen licences aforesaid shall apply only to such licensed dealers in wines, from buying, spirituous or malt liquors as shall sell the same in any quantity less than six bottles, commonly called quart bottles, at one time, and any person so doing shall be taken to be a licensed dealer within the meaning of the sections aforesaid, and shall be liable to all the penalties in the said Proclamation provided in respect of any contravention thereof. Masters may at any time. 2. It shall be lawful for any master of any servant at any search servant time to make such search of the person, residence, and property of such servant in the manner and with the purpose permitted and set forth in the thirteenth section of the Proclamation aforesaid, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Magistrates may commit for trial for contravention of No. 14. 3. Nothing in the fifteenth and twenty-third sections of the aforesaid Proclamation shall be taken to prevent any magistrate from committing any person charged before him with the contravention of any section thereof for trial before (1) See No. 51 3. any competent court of superior jurisdiction, whensoever the penalty provided in the said Proclamation for such contravention shall be by him deemed inadequate to the offence charged; and any person so committed shall be liable upon. conviction to any punishment which can by any law other than the said Proclamation be awarded for the offence of which he shall be convicted. No. 18 No. 19 (1).-Sd. Henry Barkly.] [September 23, 1872. Proclamation amending No. 18, and defining the Application of Sections Three and W 2. Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and make known that sections three and twenty of the Proclamation last aforesaid shall apply only to such holders of licences as shall sell wines, spirits, and malt liquors, to be drunk on the premises occupied by such licence-holder, and such persons only shall be taken to be licensed dealers within the meaning of the said Proclamtion No. 2 of 1872. No. 20.-Sd. Henry Barkly.] [September 23, 1872. Proclamation incorporating as Law the Acts of Cape W Cape Town the 27th day of October, 1871, proclaim, xo. 2. HEREAS I did by my Proclamation No. 68, dated at Preamble. declare, and make known that, excepting as therein excepted, the laws and usages of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope shall be deemed to be the laws of the territory of Griqualand West, so far as the same should not be inapplicable thereto : 2. And whereas certain laws have since been passed by the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope during the session thereof held at Cape Town in this current year: 3. (2) Now, therefore, I proclaim, declare and make known Acts of 1872 in that from and after the publication of this my Proclamation force. the laws passed at the aforesaid session of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope shall be deemed to be the laws of the territory of Griqualand West so far as the same are not inapplicable thereto. (1) Repealed by Ord. No. 16 of 1879. (2) Certain Acts of 1873 in force. See Ord. No. 6-1874. See also Ordinances Nos. 4-1875; 4-1876; 3-1879; and 13-1880, which apply certain Cape Acts for 1874 to 1879 to Griqualand West. No. 21. Preamble. Claim licences bound to be pro or Roads, &c. No. 21 (1).-Sd. Henry Barkly.] [September 23, 1872. Proclamation binding Workers in Claims to produce their THEREAS it is desirable that greater facilities should be afforded for ascertaining whether persons working claims are duly entitled and licensed so to do: Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and make known as follows, that is to say: 2. It shall be lawful for any inspector of claims or road duced to In- inspector, as also for any person who shall be duly thereunto spector of Claims authorized from time to time by writing under the hand of any resident or assistant resident magistrate, at any reasonable time or times to call upon any person who may be working in any claim to produce his licence for examination; and any person refusing so to do upon being so called upon shall be liable to be summoned before the magistrate of the district, and may upon conviction be fined any sum not exceeding five pounds; and may, in default of payment, be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding three months. Preamble. Court orderly created. No. 22.-Sd. Henry Barkly] W [September 23, 1872. Proclamation creating Court Orderly. HEREAS it is desirable that in addition to the ordinary police force of this territory there should be a certain officer attached to the courts of the magistrates to perform certain duties connected with the said courts: Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and make known as follows, that is to say : 2. There shall be attached to the court of each magistrate within the said territory an officer to be called the court orderly, who shall hold the rank and perform the duties heretofore held and performed by the chief constable of the municipal police, and such court orderly shall be sworn before any justice of the peace in the same manner as police constables, and shall have all the powers, and privileges, and duties of a police constable, and shall be subject to and obey all such lawful directions touching the execution of his office as may be given to him from time to time by such magistrate. (1) See Nos. 63, 71, and 73. [September 23, 1872. No. 23. Proclamation creating Armed Constabulary. No. 23. (1).—Sd. Henry Barkly.] W HEREAS it is desirable to organise and regulate an armed constabulary force within this territory: Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and make known as follows, that is to say : 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor, or the person or persons for the time being administering the Government of Griqualand West, to cause a sufficient number of fit and able men to be embodied to serve as an armed constabulary force, who shall be sworn in before a justice of the peace, to act as a police in and throughout said territory, for preserving the peace and preventing robberies and other crimes and apprehending offenders. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, or the person or persons aforesaid, by warrant under his or their hand, to appoint an inspector of such police force, and such officers as may be deemed expedient for the general superintendence and management of the said force, such inspector and other officers from time to time to displace and remove, and appoint others in their place as occasion shall require. 3. It shall be lawful for the Governor, or person or persons aforesaid, from time to time to make such regulations respecting the training, arms, accoutrements, clothing and equipment of such force, and respecting all other matters connected therewith, as may be required for promoting the discipline and efficiency thereof, as also to direct the employment and distribution of the said force within and without the territorial boundary as shall appear advisable. 4. The force shall be called the Griqualand Constabulary. 5. The inspector of the said force shall be responsible to the Governor for the conduct of the whole force, and shall report from time to time as to the efficiency and requirements thereof, and shall have power to employ and dismiss constables as occasion may require, and to appoint, promote, or degrade any non-commissioned officers, as also to punish any constable or non-commissioned officer who shall offend against any regulation from time to time in force, by stopping from his pay any sum not exceeding twenty shillings for each such offence, or to cause any constable to be taken before any resident magistrate to be dealt with as in the succeeding section mentioned. 6. Any person who shall be convicted before any resident magistrate of any offence against any of the aforesaid regulations shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds nor less than five shillings, to be recovered in a summary way, and shall in addition to such fine, or in default of payment thereof, be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for not less than one week nor more than three calender months. 7. The members of the said force so sworn as aforesaid shall throughout this territory have all such powers, duties and privileges as any police constable may have by law, and shall obey all lawful directions touching the execution of their office which they may from time to time receive from the inspector or any other officer; and when any member of the said force shall be dismissed or suspended, all his aforesaid powers, duties, and privileges shall cease and determine. 8. If any such constable shall take a bribe, or any gratuity whatever, for suffering any person lawfully in his custody to escape, or shall wilfully neglect to execute any warrant entrusted to him, or shall, during the period for which he shall have engaged to serve in this force, desert from the same, or refuse to serve therein, it shall be lawful for the inspector or any other officer of the force to cause him to be taken before any magistrate; and it shall be lawful for the magistrate to punish any person convicted before him of so offending by a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or by imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken to prevent any constable so offending as aforesaid from being prosecuted otherwise than under this section for any act in contravention thereof, which shall be by law punishable more severely than is herein provided. 9. Any licensed or unlicensed dealer in wines, spirits, or intoxicating liquors, who shall knowingly harbour any constable belonging to the said force in his house or shop during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty elsewhere, shall, upon conviction thereof before any magistrate, be liable for the first offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, and in default of payment may be imprisoned for any period not exceeding one month; and shall for a second or any subsequent offence be liable, in addition to such fine, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months. 10. No action shall be brought or prosecution instituted against any person in respect of any act done by him under this proclamation after the expiration of four months from the commission of such act, or without one month's notice, in writing, to the defendant of (1) Repealed by Ord. No. 19 of 1874. No. 23. such action and the cause thereof; and if a judgment shall be given for the defendant, or of absolution from the instance, or if, upon exception or otherwise, judgment be given against the plaintiff, the defendant shall recover his full costs as between attorney and client. 11. All fines imposed by any magistrate by virtue of any section of this Proclamation, upon any constable belonging to the said force, shall be given and paid one-third thereof to the informer or prosecutor, if demanded, and two-thirds thereof to Her Majesty in her territorial revenue: provided, always, that when any constable belonging to the said force shall be entitled to any proportion of such fine, the amount shall be paid into a general fund, to be distributed among the constables of the said force at the end of every year, according to such regulations as shall from time to time be in force, and, in default of any such regulation, shall be paid to the person entitled thereto upon the recovery thereof. 12. Any constable belonging to the said force who shall be convicted before any magistrate of selling, pledging, or otherwise disposing of or destroying any Government property entrusted to him, shall be liable to be punished by fine not exceeding ten pounds, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months. 13. All and singular of the provisions of the Act of the Colonial Parliament, No. 21 of 1856, shall be deemed and taken to apply to the West Griqualand Armed Constabulary, as fully as if the same were inserted herein. Ticamble. Localising No. 24.-Sd. Henry Barkly.] [September 23, 1872. Proclamation giving Resident Magistrates power to appoint THEREAS it is necessary to remove any doubts which may arise as to the legality of certain proceedings. heretofore held before assistant magistrates within this territory, as also to provide for the appointment of such assistant magistrates when the same shall be necessary: 1. Now, therefore, I proclaim, declare, and make known D'Arcy's judi- as follows, that from and after the publication of this my Proclamation, all proceedings heretofore held, writs and warrants issued, and judgments given before and by James Lionel Truter and Richard D'Arcy, as such assistant magistrates as aforesaid, are hereby declared to be lawful, valid, and binding to such and the same extent as if the same had been held and given before and by the resident magistrate of the district of P'niel: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken to prevent the same being subject to appeal or review, in the same manner as if they had been so held and given. Magistrates may appoint tanis. 2. It shall be lawful for any magistrate at any time when assis he shall be prevented by absence, pressure of business, or any other unavoidable cause, by writing under his hand, to appoint any person holding the office of clerk to the magistrate or clerk to the civil commissioner to act in his absence or during the existence of such unavoidable cause; and any |