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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MAY, 1889.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL ORDINANCE 6 OF 1889, AND TO AMEND THE STATUTE LAW PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1886.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.
Bill reported without amendment.
The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put--that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 17 of 1889.
BILL ENTITLED THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ORDINANCE, 1889.--On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, the Council resumed Committee en this Bill.
Progress reported.
ADJOURNMENT.--The Governor then adjourned the Council till Monday, the 6th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 6th day of May, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 222.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.
Commeil Chamber, Hongkong, 6th May, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
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Preamble.
Short Uile.
Repeal.
DRAFT BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Extradition of Chinese Criminals.
WHEREAS by Article XXI. of the Treaty between
Her Majesty and the Emperor of China done at Tientsin on the 26th June, 1858, it was agreed and con- cinded that if criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong, or on board the British ships there they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities, be searched for, and on proof of their guilt, be delivered up; and whereas it is expedient to amend the law for the more effective carrying out of the said treaty in relation to the surrender of criminals, subjects of China, who take refuge in Hongkong, or on board the British ships there: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889.
2. Ordinances No. 2 of 1850 and No. 2 of 1871 are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything done or suffered or any proceedings for the surrender of a eriminal commenced under the said Ordinances or either of them before the coming into operation of this Ordinance and such proceedings may be completed and the criminal surrendered as if this Ordinance had not come into opera-
tion.