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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
In section 39B :-
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In the definition of The Colony the word the in the third line was deleted and the word "their substituted therefor, and the word "thereof " in the third line and the words and Kellet Island" in the fourth line were deleted.
In the definition of Kowloon" the words "in the Province of Kwang-tung in the Empire of China" in the second and third lines were deleted, and the words Great Britain by the Emperor of China" were substituted for all the words from Her Majesty" to
Peking" inclusive.
In the definition of "The New Territories" the words acquired by this Colony " in the second line were deleted and the words "leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China" were substituted toerefor, and all the words from the words "between Her" to the end were deleted.
In the definition of "City of Victoria" the words and brackets (that is to say a level which shall hereafter be notified in the Gazette)" were inserted after the words “Ordnance datum" in the fourth paragraph.
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In the definition of "The Waters of the Colony" the words “ following boundaries in the third line were deleted and the words "area bounded as follows" were substibuted there- for, the word "by was inserted after the word “South" in the first line of the second paragraph, the words "by a line drawn" were inserted after the word “North" in the first line of the third paragraph, and the words "Thereafter the land boundary is" in the ninth line of the same paragraph were deleted and the words "Thence by a line drawn "- were substibuted therefor, and the word "by" was inserted after the words “East” and “West in the first line of the fourth and fifth paragraphs respectively.
In the definition of "Harbour" the second paragraph was cancelled and the following substibuted therefor :---
“on the Fast.--A line drawn from a pillar to be markel Harbour Limits at North Point on the island of Hongkong to the most easterly point of Kowloon Pier."
and the word “Master's" in the second last line of the same definition was deleted and the word "Department" substibuted therefor.
In the definition of "Publice Officer" the words "any appointment" were inserted between the words "holding" and "or" in the second line, the words "or appointment in the Civil Service of the Colony, and includes every member" were deleted and the words "the emoluments of which are wholly or in part directly derived from the Revenues of the Colony, and includes members of the Excentive and Legislative Councils, members of the Sanitary Beard, Justices of the Peace, members" were substituted therefor, and the following words were added at the end thereof :--" and also Commissioners and persons acting under Ordinance No. 13 of 1886 and persons acting under Ordinance No. 6 of 1893”.
The definition of "Emigration Officer ”
was cancelled.
Section 41 as substituted at the Meeting of the 10th Angust, 1911, was cancelled and the old section 41 of the Bill as printed on page 158 of the Supplement to the Gazette was
restored.
Sub-section (6) of section 48 was cancelled and section (7) was renumbered (6). On Council resuming the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with considerable amendments. The third reading was therefore postponed until the next Med in order to enable the Bill to be re-published in the Gazette for general
information.
ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 24th August, 1911.
Read and confirmed this 24th day of August, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
· Clerk of Councils.
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.