DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 16.
No. 5.
Bublished by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH APRIL, 1876.
[L.S.] A. E. KENNEDY.
PROCLAMATION.
VOL. XXII.
By Ilis Excellency SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Cominander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by Section V of Ordinance No. 11 of 1875, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for the more convenient Administration of "The Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873,"—it is enacted as follows:-
"This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be hereafter proclaimed by the Governor: " Now, therefore, I, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, in pursuance of the said Section and by virtue of the Authority thereby in me vested, do hereby under iny Hand Proclaim, that the said Ordinance shall commence and take effect from this date.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 10th Day of April, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 4 or 1876.
MONDAY, 27TH MARCH, 1876.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honourable the Chief Justice (SIR JOHN SMALE).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (Join GARDINER AUSTIN).
The Honourable the Attorney General (JOHN BRAMSTON).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council held on Monday, the 6th March, are read and confirmed. The Bill to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the conveyance of Chinese Emi- grants is read a second time and the Council goes into Committee upon the clauses of the Bill. At the end of section 4, at the instance of the Chief Justice, the following words are added “Every such contract shall be made in triplicate and one part thereof shall be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp." A suspending clause to sections 4 and 5 is then added, and one or two other verbal alterations are made, after which the Bill is committed and passed, bearing the Title of An Ordinance enacted by the Gorernor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, being -" No. 1 of 1876.
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