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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
“Legislative Council” and “Legislature", mean the Council of Government of Hongkong, and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hongkong, the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament, or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession.
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"The Treasury” and “Treasurer" mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonlal Treasurer respect- ively.
"Justice of the Peace" means a person appointed by the Governor to act as Justice of the Peace for the Colony,
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B.-Colonial Definitions.
The Colony' "this Colony" or Hongkong'
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Colonial
means the Island of Hongkong and Kowloon, definitions. and their dependencies, together with Stone- cutters Island, and includes the New Terri- tories, unless it appears from express provision or by necessary implication that the New Tor- ritories or New Kowloon is not intended.
"Kowloon” means that portion of the peninsult of Kau-lung which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of China on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1860.
"The New Territories" means the additional ter- ritories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention date the 9th day of June, 1898.
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* New Kowloon means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated and shown upon a pla marked "New Kowloon" signed by the Director of Public Works and countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office.
"City of Victoria”, or “ Victoria", means the area
within the following boundaries :----
on the North. The Harbour;
on the West.-A line ruuning north and south drawn through the north-west angle of Inland Lot No. 1299 and extending southwards a distance of eight hundred and fifty feet from: the aforesaid angle;
on the South.-A line ruuning east from the southern extremity of the western boundary until it meets a contour of the hill-side seven hundred feet above the level known as Ord- nance datum (that is to say, a level which shall hereafter be notified in the Gaz:#te) thence following the said contour until it meets the castern boundary;
the East. liue following the western boundary of the Queen's Recreation Ground until it meets the old Shankiwan Road, thence to the south-east augle of Inland Lot No. 1018, thence along the southern boundary of Inland Lot No. 1018, produced patil it meets the road on the east side of Wongneicheng Valley, thence to the south-east angle of Inland Lot No. 1364, produced until it meets the southern boundary.
"The Waters of the Colony" or "Colonial Waters" means all waters, whether navig ble or not, included within the area bounded follows:-
on the South, by the paralici of latitude 22° 9' North between the point where it is intersected by the meridians a longitude 113° 52' East and 114° 30′ East of Greenwich ;
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