THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 4, 1912.
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'Innkeeper means the keeper of any such place
and includes a public company.
addition to
3. An innkeeper shall, in addition to his ordinary lien, Innkeeper to have the right absolutely to sell by public auction any pro- have a right perty which may have been deposited with him or left in of sale in the inn he keeps or in the premises appurtenant or belong his lien. ing thereto, where the person depositing or leaving such ef. 41 & 42 property shall be or become indebted to the said innkeeper Viet. e. 38 either for any board or lodging or for the keep or expenses s. 1. of any animal left with such innkeeper or standing at livery in the stables or fields occupied by such innkeeper. Provided however :-
(1) that, except in the case of perishable property,
no such sale shall be made. until after the said
property shall have been for the spatve of six weeks in such charge or custody or in or apon such premises without such debt having been satisfied,
(2) that such innkeeper, after having, out of the pro- reeds of such sale, paid himseif the amount of any such debt together with the costs and expenses of such sale, shall on demand pay to the person depositing or leaving such property the surplus (if any) remaining after such sale. (3) that the debt for the payment of which a sale is made shall not be any other or greater debt than the debt for which the property could have been retained by the innkeeper under his lien.
(4) that, in the case of perishable property, as soon as conveniently may be either before or after such sale, and in the case of other property at least one month before any such sale, the fan- keeper shall cause to be inserted in a news- paper circulating in the Colony an advertise- ment containing a notice of such sale or in- tended sale and giving shortly a description of the property sold or intended to be sold together with the name of the owner or person where known who deposited or left the same,
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd, day of October, 1912.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 4th
day of October, 1912.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG.
No. 30 of 1912.
An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates
Ordinance, 1890.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. II. MAY, Governor.
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[4th October, 1912.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and cousent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Short title. Further Amendment Ordinance, 1912.
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