THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 21, 1914.

HONGKONG.

No. 22 of 1914.

An Ordinance to exempt certain securities on imported goods from the operation of the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor.

[21st August, 1914.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Sale Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Bills of Sale Ordinance. 1886, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together

as the Bills of Sale Ordinauces, 1886 and 1914.

2. An instrument charging or creating any security on Exemption or declaring trusts of imported goods given or executed at of certain any time prior to their deposit in a warehouse, godown, securities on

imported factory, or store, or to their being reshipped for export, or goods from delivered to a purchaser not being the person giving or Ordinance executing such instrument, shall not be deemed a bill of No. 7 of

1886. sale within the meaning of the Bills of Sale Ordinance,

(54 & 55 1886.

Fict, c. 35 s. 1.)

Ordinance

No. 7 of 1891, s. 37.

3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the operation Saving of of section 37 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891, in respect of any goods comprised in any such instrument as is hereinbefore described, if such goods would but for this Ordinance be goods within the meaning of that section.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 20th day of August, 1914.

(53 & 54 Vict.

c. 53 s. 2.)

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 21st day of August, 1914.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 326.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote Surgeon- Lieutenant G. D. R. BLACK, Hongkong Volunteer Corps, to be Surgeon-Captain, with effect from this date.

12th August, 1914.

No. 327-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. CHARLES CLEMENT FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM to be Second Lieutenant in the Scouts Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from the 19th August, 1914.

20th August, 1914.

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