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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1895.
Title.
Construction,
Repeals and ameziments.
Interest.
Costs for letter of application.
DRAFT BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend “The Crown Remedies
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Ordinance, 1875.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance shall be read and construed together with Ordinance 13 of 1875 hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed.
The first form in the schedule to the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed aud in lieu thereof the form in the first schedule hereto shall be substituted.
The said schedule is hereby further amended by striking out the last certificate and by substituting in lieu thereof the certificate in the second schedule hereto.
Ordinance 3 of 1888 is hereby repealed.
3. If any person fail to pay any Crown rent for which he is liable within one month after the same shall have become due interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum shall become due thereon from the expiration of such month nutil the day of payment, and the Colonial Treasurer may recover the same by suit in Summary Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court as provided in the principal Ordinance. And if it become necessary for the Colonial Treasurer to recover the same by suit as provided in the principal Ordin- auce the Court may award interest at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum instead of at 8 per cent. per annum.
4. If any person shall have made default in payment of any Crown rent for which he is liable within one mouth after the same shall have become due or shall have made default in payment of any interest which may have become due thereon and the Crown Solicitor shall have made application to such person for payment of the same there shall be paid by such person to the Crown Solicitor for every such application the sum of two dollars whether a suit has been instituted for the recovery of the said Crown rent or the said interest or not.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
1
2
3
Name of Defendant.
Amount claimed.
No. of Crown Lot in respect of which the rent
is claimed.
4
For what period
the rent claimed and when due.
SECOND SCHEDULE
or (in suits for Crown rent).
¡, A.B., Colonial Treasurer for Hongkong, do hereby certify that the several persons whose names are entered in the first column of the above schedule have made default in the payment of the sums appearing opposite to their respective names in the second column in respect of the Crown rent, and that the particulars of the above claims for Crown rent against such persons are truly set forth opposite their respective names in the third and fourth columns.
Dated the
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Colonial Treasurer.
Construction.
DRAFT BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 17 of
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1887.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance shall be read and construed together with Ordinance 17 of 1887.
2. Section 7 of Ordinance 17 of 1887 is hereby amended by inserting the word “Government" between the words "constructed" and “depôt.”
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