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"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.
• The Treasury “and »Treasurer” mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respect- ively,
“Justice of the Peace" means a person appointed by the Governor to aer as Justice of the Peace for the Colony,
B.--Colonial Definitious,
- The Colony”, “"this Colony", or "Hongkong" • Colonial
means the Island of Hongkong and Kowloon, definitions, and the dependencies thereof, together with Stonecutters Island and Kellet Island, and includes the New Territories, unless it appears from express provision or by necessary implica- tion that the New Territories or New Kowloon is not intended.
• Kowloon" means that portion of the peninsula of Kau-lung in the Province of Kwang-tung in the Empire of China which was ceded to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. and to her heirs and successors by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China under Article VI of the Convention of Peace and Friendship between Great Britain and China signed at Peking on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1860.
The New Territories means the additional ter- ritories acquired by this Colony under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of Chinn for the enlargement of the limits of this Colony in- eluding the City of Kowloon.
* New Kowloon" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated and shewn upon a plan marked New Kowloom" 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 :
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on the North. -The Harbour :
on the West.-A line running north and south drawn through the north-west angle of Inland Lot No. 1299 and extending south wards a distance of eight hundred and fifty feet from the aforesaid angle:
on the South.--A line running 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- pauce datum theure following the said contour nutil it meets the eastern boundary;
On the East.---A line following the western boundary of the Queen's Recreation Ground until it meets the old Shankiwan Road, thence to the south-east angle of Inland Lot No. 1018, thence along the southern boundary of Inland Lot No. 1018, produced until it meets the road on the east side of Wongneichong Valley, thence to the north-west angle of Wongneichong School, produced until it meets the southern boundary.
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"The Waters of the Colony or "Colonial Waters"
means all waters, whether navigable or not,
included within the following boundaries :-