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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1911.
PENALTIES AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordinance to abolish Minimum Penalties, and to bring the Law of the Colony as to Penalties into uni- formity with the Law of England, and for other purposes.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
On the motion the of Attorney General the words "with or without hard labour, as the case may be" in the fourth and fifth lines of sub-section (2) of section 9 were deleted.
In Part II of the Schedule the following words and figures were inserted between the third and fourth last lines thereof-" Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, section 15".
In the references to the sections of Ordinance No. 6 of 1865 in Parts III and IV of the said Schedule the figure "(2)" after the figures "28" was deleted.
The following was added at the end of Part V of the said Schedule:---
Ordinance No. 9 of 1911, in section 89, for the words "or imprisonment" there shall be read "and imprisonment", and the words "or to both fine and imprisonment" are repealed.
Ordinance No. 16 of 1911, in sections 3 (2) and 5, for the words "or imprison- ment" there shall be read "and imprisonment ", and the words. both" are repealed.
Council resumed, the Bill being left in Committee.
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ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 10th August, 1911.
Read and confirmed this 10th day of August, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
F. D. LUGARD, Governor.
No. 236.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council :
Ordinance No. 27 of 1911.-An Ordinance to yet further amend the Widows' and
Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.