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· 132 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1888.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR THE NATURALIZATION OF LAI KIT otherwise LAI CHEUK.--The Attorney General moved the third reading of this Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 9 of 1888.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned to Wednesday, the 8th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 8th day of February, 1888.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 55.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held yesterday, is published for general information.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 9th February, 1888.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
Registrar to post up and publish
notices.
Sumu not elaimel to be paid to General Revenue.
Bretions 6 to 9 of Ord. 7 of 1985 to apply.
A BILL
ENTITLED
The Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1888.
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. On the coming into operation of this Ordinance the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall cause to be posted up in some conspicuous place in the Supreme Court notices in the form set forth in Schedules A., B., and C. to this Ordinance.
Schedules A. and B. shall remain so posted up for the space of six months, and Schedule C. for the space of one year.
2. The said Registrar shall also cause the said notices to be published twice in the Government Gazette and for six consecutive days in at least one newspaper published daily in this Colony.
He shall also cause Schedule C. to be published in four consecutive numbers of the London Gazette and for six consecutive days in the Times newspaper.
He shall also cause a notice in the form set forth in Schedule D. to be published daily for two consecutive weeks in at least one daily newspaper published in this Colony.
3. The suns mentioned in the said Schedules or such of them as shall be unclaimed at the end of the respective periods aforesaid shall be transferred to the General Re- venues of the Colony.
4. The provisions of Sections 6 to 9 inclusive of the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1885, shall apply to the refund of any of the above mentioned sums if claimed at any time after the expiry of the periods mentioned in Section 1.