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17. Any person convicted of assault with weapons or other instruments, with the intent to. do serious permanent injury, shall be committed to the Court held before the Resident Commissioner for Niue for trial, and, upon conviction, may be sentenced to not exceeding twelve (12) months' hard labour. 18. Any person convicted of being drunk or disorderly may be fined not more than two pounds (£2), or in default thereof sentenced to not more than one (1) month's labour. OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY. 19. Any person convicted of stealing the property of others shall pay the value thereof to the owner, or return the property, and shall, in addition to such value, perform hard labour for not more than three (3) months. ■ 20. Any person owning horses, pigs, or other animals shall be responsible for all damage done by them, and may be summoned before the Native Magistrate, who shall decide the amount of damage payable to the person suffering damage. Should the amount so assessed not be paid at the time fixed the defaulter may be fined in the value of the damage. 21. Any person convicted of maliciously setting fire to, or attempting to burn, any building belonging to another, may, on conviction, be fined any sum not exceeding five pounds (£5), in addition to the value of the property destroyed, which latter is to go to the injured individual; or in default of payment the offender may be sentenced to six (6) months' hard labour. 22. Any person convicted of wilfully damaging any property or animal of another may be fined not exceeding two pounds (£2), in addition to the value of the property destroyed or damaged, the latter value to be paid to the injured party, or in default thereof the offender may be sentenced to hard labour for not exceeding one (1) month. 23. Any person convicted of deserting his wife or family may be ordered by the Native Magistrate to contribute to her or their support weekly, in money or goods, to an amount to be decided on by the Native Magistrate, failing which the offender may be sentenced to hard labour for any term not exceeding two (2) months. 24. Any person found on the premises of another after dark, and refusing to leave when ordered by the owner or occupier, may be fined in a sum not greater than ten shillings (10s.). 25. Any person convicted of obtaining money under false pretences shall be remanded to the Court, which may inflict a fine not exceeding five pounds (£5), or in default of payment thereof may impose a sentence of three (3) months' hard labour. 26. Any person convicted of forging any document shall be remanded to the Court, which may inflict a fine not exceeding ten pounds (£10), or in default of payment thereof may impose a sentence of six (6) months' hard labour. POLICE. 27. There shall be a body of police, to be appointed by the Council with the approval of the Resident Commissioner for Niue, two constables for Alofi, and one each for the remaining ten v.illao-es of Niue, and they shall hold office during the pleasure of the Council. Each policeman shalfbe paid at the rate of three pounds (£3) per annum. The duties of the said police shall be to see that the laws are carried out, to report cases of breaches of the law to the Native Magistrate, to warn people to attend the Courts when so directed by the Native or other Magistrates, to get up the necessary evidence in cases coming before the Court, to oversee the persons sentenced to hard labour, and to perform such other duties as they may from time to time receive instructions for from the Resident Commissioner. , 28 Any policeman who shall behave harshly or oppressively in the execution of his duty, or shall force his way into any house without due authority and against the will of the owner, maybe summoned by 'the aggrieved party before the Native Magistrate, and, on conviction, shall be liable to a fine of not more than two pounds (£2). MISCELLANEOUS. 29 The Native Magistrates shall in all cases hear such cases in places open to the public, and they shall keep a record of all cases brought before them, and their decisions thereon, in a form to be supplied to them by the Resident Commissioner. ~"'.. x , , ~~. A 30 Before the Native Magistrates hear any case they shall satisfy themselves that the accused person 'or persons have been properly summoned to appear by notice of at least three (3) days before the case is heard, and that the charge has been explained to him or them,_ and that the accused is at liberty to call witnesses for his or their defence. The accused must in all cases be allowed to examine witnesses and make a statement in his or their own behalf. 31 There shall be paid into the hands of the Native Magistrate, before he hears any case coming'before him under the "Offences against Property" sections of this Ordinance, a sum of tw y h^ in f ) S J go S n ) a rieved by the decision of the Native Magistrates may appeal to the Court against any such decision on giving notice to the Native Magistrate within one (1) month of his decision, and on depositing with the application the sum of ten shillings (10b.). _ 33 All fees or other moneys received under this Ordinance, where not otherwise provided for, are to be paid to the Resident Commissioner at Alofi as soon as possible, and wiU be placed by him in the Revenue of Niue Account. „ . 34 Any person failing to appear' when duly summoned in cases under the "Offences against the Person" sections of this Ordinance may be apprehended by the police on the order of the Native Magistrate, and thereupon shall be brought before the Court for trial 35 i/any persons fail to appear when duly summoned in cases under the "Offences against Property " sections of this Ordinance, judgment may be recorded against them, and on failure