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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. Trn MARCH, 1885.
ENGLISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
4 Ounces avoirdupois.
X
1 Found
Weights,
7 Pounds avoirdupois,
11
28
Pounds
1
yi, oz. Trog.
་་
#
"
56
f. oz.
1 Ounce
Troy.
•
2 Ounces
Length.
1 Yard divided into feet and inches.
1 Half Gill,
1 Half Pint.
1 Gill.
1 Pint.
1 Quart.
Capacity.
1 Half Gallon.
1 Gallon.
1 Peck.
1 Half Bushel.
1 Bushel.
The contents of each measure to be not heaped, but flat and level with the rim of the vessel.
Measures of length, if made of wood or bamboo, shall (except yard incasure, imported from the United Kingdom) be tipped at the ends with me to the satisfaction of the Examiner of weights and mea- sures, or, in case of doubt, of a l'olice Magistrate, whose decision shall be final.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 88.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.
ARATHOON SETH.
· Clerk of Councils.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 4th March, 1885.
Ind.
Estate.
Money subject
to be invested
ou the pur-
chase of Land
Chlef Justice, Judge, Land
Officer.
Land Officer. A married wo- man with jus- band's concur rence and he deel acknow- Tedged may dispore of Laits.
A BILL
ENTITLED
The Married Women's Disposition of Property Ordinance, 1885.
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. In this Ordinance the word "Land" shall include laud, messages, tenements, and hereditaments of any tenure situate within the Colony, and any undivided share thereof. The word "Estate" shall include an Estate in equity as well as at law, and shall also include any interest, charge, lien, or incumbrance in, upon, or affecting land either at law or in equity, and also any interest, charge, lien or incumbrance in, upon, or affecting money subject to be 'invested in the purchase of land.
The expression "Money subject to be invested in the purchase of land" shall include money, whether raised or to be raised, and whether the amount thereof be, or be not, ascertained, and shall extend to stocks and funds and rea! and other securities the produce of which is directed to be invested in the purchase of land.
The expression "the Chief Justice" or Judge" shall mean the Chief Justice or a Judge of the Court, and the expressions "the Land Officer and Land Office" shall mean the Land Office and Land Officer of this Colony.
2. A married woman way by deed dispose of any land and money subject to be invested in the purchase of land, and also dispose of, disclaim, release, surrender, or extin- guish any estate which she alone, or she and her husband in her right, may have in any land or in any such money, and also relcase or extinguish any power which may be vested in, or limited, or reserved to her in regard to any land, or any such money, or in regard to any estate in any land, or in any such money, as fully and effectually as she could do if she were a feme sole, but no such disposition, disclaimer, release, surrender or extinguishunent shall be valid and effectual unless the husband concur in the deed by which the same is effected, nor less the deed be acknowledged by her as hereinafter directed.
Provided that the powers of disposition given to a mar- ried woman by this Ordinance shall not interfere with any power which, independently of this Ordinance, may be vested in, or limited, or reserved to her, so as to prevent her from exercising such power in any case, except so far as by any disposition made by her under this Ordinuce she may be prevented from so doing in con.equence of such power having been suspended or extinguished by such disposition.