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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 18TH APRIL, 1899.
No. 19.
VOL. XLV.
號九十第
日九初月三年亥己
日八十月四年九十九百八千一
簿五十四第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 238.
His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the naine and on behalf of the QUEEN, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-
Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.-An Ordinance to exempt the territories comprised in the recent extension of the Colony of Hongkong from the operation of certain laws, and for other purposes.
Ordinance No. 11 of 1899.-An Ordinance relating to Local Communities and Tribunals. Ordinance No. 12 of 1899.-An Ordinance to provide for the Better Regulation of the New
Territories.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th April, 1899.
No. 10 or 1899.
J. H. STEWARt Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.
An Ordinance to exempt the territories comprised in the recent extension of the Colony of Hong. kong from the operation of certain laws, and for other purposes.
LS
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
[18th April, 1899.]
WHEREAS, by a Convention dated the 9th day of June, Preamble, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it was provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hongkong should be enlarged under lease to Her said Majesty in the manner described in the said Convention:
And whereas, by an Order of Her Majesty in Corneil, dated the 20th day of October, 1898, it was ordered that the territories within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention should be, and the same were thereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony; and whereas it was further ordered that it should be com- petent for the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, to make laws for the peace, order, and good gov erpment of the said territories as part of the said Colony; and whereas it was further ordered that from a late to be fixed by proclamation of the Governor of Hongkong all laws and Ordinances which should at such date be in force in the said Colony should take effect in the said territories and should remain in force therein until the same should