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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 14, 1916.
PHARMACY AND POISONS BILL.--The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Poisons.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On the motion of the Attorney General the following amendments were agreed to:- The words "licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine" in the first and second lines of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 13 were deleted and the word person", substituted therefor.
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The words “or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under this Ordinance were inserted after the word "practitioner" at the end of section 14.
The word " registered" was inserted before the word "medical" in the first line of clause (a) and in the second line of clause (c) of section 15.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with amendments and moved that it be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT, ----Council then adjourned until after the meeting of the Finance
Committee.
SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.----On Council resuming, the Colonial Secretary reported that the Bill intituled An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supple- mentary sum of Three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven Dollars and forty-one Cents, to defray the Charges of the year 1915, had been approved by the Finance Committee, and moved that the Bill be read a third time.
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The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ÅDJOURNMENT.---The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 13th day of July,
Read and confirmed this 13th day of July, 1916.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
F. H. MAY, Governor.
No. 312.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:-
Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.---An Ordinance to provide for the taxation of
tobacco.