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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 8, 1909.
village and in such areas adjacent to the said village as the Governor may in the said order direct and who reside in the said village or within the said area: and such order shall continue in force until the Governor, by a further order un- der his band, revokes or alters the original order, which the Governor shall do if he is satisfied that the injuries to trees or growing plants ou account of which the original order was issued have censed or that full compensation has been paid by way of fine for the damage done to Crown property or land, or that such injuries or damage were not committed by the inhabitants of such village.
6. Any such fine ordered by the Governor to be levied Mode of shall be a first charge upon the property of all persons who levying fine. are registered in the Land Office as owners of land which is within the area specified in the said order and who reside within such area and it shall be recoverable in the same manner in all respects as Crown Rent is recoverable.
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to prevent Saving of any person from being prosecuted under the Principal liability to Ordinance or any other enactment under which before the other penal- commencement of this Ordinance he might have been ties. prosecuted for injuring or cutting down trees or for the stealing or unlawful possession of wood or for doing any wanton and malicious damage of any nature whatsoever on
or upon any Crown property or land.
8. The Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888, is hereby Repeal of repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th day of October, 1909.
C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of October, 1909.
the Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888.
F. II. MAY,
Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG.
No. 29 OF 1909.
An Ordinance to relieve the Governor-in-Council
of certain duties.
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F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
[8th October, 1909.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Executive Conn- Short title. cil Relief of Duties Ordinance, 1909.
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2. Where in the Ordinances set out in the First Schedule Governor substituted to this Ordinance the words “Governor-in-Council " appear the word “Governor" shall be substituted for and read in for "Govern- lien thereof to the extent specified in the said schedule. cil'in certain
or-in-Coun.
Ordinances.
3. Where in the Ordinances set out in the Second Schedule Words "with to this Ordinance the words “with the advice and consent the advice of of the Executive Council” or the words “with the advice the Execu-
tive Council" of the Executive Conneil appear the same shall be deleted
deleted from to the extent specified in the said schedule.
certain Ordinances. Amendment of section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1870,
4. Section 2 of the Crown Fees Ordinance, 1870, is hereby amended by the deletion of the words "to the Governor- in-Council in the third line thereof.
5. The forms 8 and 9 in the Second Schedule to the Amendment Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, are hereby amended by of Second the deletion of the words "in Council' Councils" wherever the same appear in the said forms.
and "Clerk of
Schedule of
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th day of October, 1909.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of October, 1909.
F. H. MAY,
Ordinance No. 1 of 1881.
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