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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1886.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance relating to Bills of Lading.
WH
"HEREAS it is expedient that Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 should be re-enacted with certain amendments: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886.”
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Short title.
2. Ordinance No. of 1856 is hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect the past operation of the said Ordi- nance nor anything done or suffered thereunder.
3. Every consignee of goods named in a Bill of Lading, and every endorsee of a Bill of Lading to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such consignment or endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods, as if the contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself,
4. Nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any right of stoppage in transitu, or any right to claim freight against the original shipper or owner, or any liability of the consignee or endorses by reason or in consequence of his being such consignee, or endorsee, or of his receipt of the goods by reason or in consequence of such consigument or endorsement.
5. Every Bill of Lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped, unless such holder of the Bill of Lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board: Provided that the master or other person so signing may exonerate himself in respect of such misrepresentation by showing that it was caused without any default on his part, and wholly by the fraud of the shipper, or of the holder, or some person under whom the holder claims.
Repeal.
Rights under Bills of Lading to vest in consignee or endorsee. (18 & 19 Vic. c. 111, 8. 1.)
Not to affect right of stoppage in transitu or claims for freight.
(18 & 19 Vic. c. 111, s. 2.)
Bill of Lading in hands of consignee, &c., conclusive evidence of the shipment so agaiust Master, &c. (18 & 19 Vic. c. 111, 8. 3.)
Proviso.
1077
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 435.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held. on the spot, on Monday, the 29th day of November, 1886, at 4 P.M., are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th November, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 29th day of November, 1886, at 4 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of Five Lots of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Boundary Measurements.
No.
of Sale.
Registry.
No.
in
LOCALITY.
N.W.
& W
S. &
S.E.
E.
W.
Contents Annual Square ft.
Upset
Rent.
Price.
Rural Building
feet.
feet.
feet. feet.
Lots
1
37
Magazine Gap,
290
370
207
42,100 98
840
N.W.
S.
2
38
Do.,
256 120 310 207 44,800 104
900
N.
39
Do.,
210
350 219 240 61,900 138
1,240
4
49
Do.,
350
300
5
50
Do.,
237
400 237 330
63,800
237 36,100 84.
146
720
1,280