THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
VI. On the application of any party to any legal pro- ceedings who has received such notice, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that such party be at liberty to inspect and to take copies of any entry or entries in the ledger, day books, cash books, or other account books of any such bank relating to the matters in question in such legal proceedings, and such orders may be made by such judge at his discretion either with or without summoning before him such bank or the other party or parties to such legal proceedings, and shall be intimated to such bank at least three days before such copies are required.
VII. On the application of any party to any legal pro- ceedings who has received notice, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that such entries and copies mentioned in the said notice shall not be admissible as evidence of the matters, transactions, and accounts recorded in such ledgers, day books, cash books, and other account books.
VIII. No bank shall be compellable to produce the ledgers, days books cash books, or other account books of such bank in any legal proceedings, unless a judge of the Supreme Court specially orders that such ledgers, day books, cash books, or other account books should be produced at such legal proceedings.
Power under order of Court to inspect books and take copies.
Judge may order that copies are not admissible.
Bank not com. pellable to produce books except in cer- tain cases.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 51.
The Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. CHAN LONG-HIN to be a Temporary Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office.
By His Excellency's Command,
M. S. TONNOCHY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1882.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 52.
Notice is hereby given, that the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony, has granted Letters Patent, bearing date the 11th Day of February, 1882, to THOMAS ALVA EDISON, of Menlo Park, New Jersey in the United States of America, Assignee of ARNHOLD WHITE of Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, for securing to him the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, an Invention, for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England, by the said ARNOLD WHITE for "Improvements in Telephones," for the residue of the term of Seven Years from the 31st Day of December, 1879.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1882.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 53.
Notice is hereby given, that the Governor in Council, in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, has granted Letters Patent, bearing date the 11th Day of February, 1882, to THOMAS ALVA EDISON, of Menlo Park, New Jersey in the United States of America, for securing to him the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, the following Inventions for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England, viz.:-
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(1) For "Improvements in means for Recording Sounds, and in Reproducing such Sounds from such Record," for the residue of the term of Seven Years from the 24th Day of April, 1878. (2) For "Improvements in Telephones and Apparatus employed in Electric Circuits," for the
residue of the term of Seven Years from the 15th Day of June, 1878.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1882.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.