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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 25, 1913..
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 228.--It is hereby notified for general information and in pursuance of the Resolution made by the Legislative Council on the 24th day of July, 1913, that the Resolution of the Legislative Council dated 31st August, 1911, shall not apply to the tran- shipment in Hongkong of Raw Indian Opium exported and coming from India and con- signed to Macao for the use of the Macao Opium Farmer within the limits and conditions indicated in the Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Portuguese Republic dated at London 14th June, 1913.
No. 229.-The following is published for general information.
24th July, 1913.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretury.
Rules and Regulations of the Chinese Cemetery at Aberdeen.
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WHEREAS by a Deed of Appropriation dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand nine hundred and thirteen made by His Excellency Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong duly authorized by His Majesty George V, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, after reciting (inter alia) that His said Majesty had been graciously pleased to set apart a certain piece or parcel of ground situate at Aberdeen in the said Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 78 for the purpose of a Permanent Cemetery for Chinese permanently resident in the said Colony, and after reciting further that it had been agreed that the Government of Hongkong should lay out the said piece or parcel of ground as a Cemetery as aforesaid in manner therein set forth and that the costs and expenses for and incidental to the laying out as aforesaid, provided the total amount thereof should not exceed the sum of $20,000, shall be subscribed by Chinese permanently resident in the Colony of Hongkong, and after reciting further that it had been decided that the care and management of the said Cemetery should be entrusted to a Board of Manage- ment (hereinafter referred to as "The Board") It was witnessed and thereby declared that for so long as the conditions and obligations thereinafter contained were complied with by the Board of the Chinese Permanent Cemetery therein mentioned the said piece or parcel of ground above mentioned and comprised in the Schedule thereto although remaining vested in His said Majesty and His Successors should be and is thereby exclusively appropriated and set apart for the purpose of a permanent Cemetery for Chinese permanently resident in the said Colony of Hongkong AND WHEREAS the following Rules and Regulations for the proper management of the said Cemetery have been duly made, agreed to, and approved of and consented to by His Excellency the Governor :
1. The Cemetery shall be named "The Chinese Permanent Cemetery ".
2. The promoters of the Cemetery shall, before the laying out of the said Lot and its utilization as a burial place collect among themselves and those Chinese who are in sympathy with the movement, the Minimum sum of $25,000. The said sum of $25,000 together with any sum or sums of money contributed or subscribed or donated over and above that amount shall be handed over to a Board of Management, which shall be constituted in the manner hereinafter set forth to be held by them for the following purposes :—
(a.) To fulfil the terms and conditions of the said Deed of Appropriation.
(.) To erect the various necessary buildings on the said Lot.
(c.) To carry out all such works and to do all such things as may be considered necessary or essential for the utilization and maintenance of the said Inland Lot as a Cemetery.
3. Every promotor or subscriber of $100 or upwards shall be entitled to certain privileges as regards the free allotment and reservation of certain number of sites for burial purposes but the exact nature and extent of such privileges and the number of free burial sites to be allotted and reserved together with the manner of such allotment shall be determined and defined by the Board.