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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 53.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 10 OF 1876.
MONDAY, 11TH DECEMBER, 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 (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (James Russell).
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 Meeting of Council held on the 16th November, 1876, are read and confirmed. The Deportation and Conditional Pardons Consolidation Ordinance is read a second time, and the
Council goes into Committee upon the clauses of the Bill.
At the end of Section VIII, the Acting Attorney General proposes to add after the words "with the case", "and to remit him to Gaol to undergo any sentence not exceeding the whole of his original and commuted sentence."
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Amendment adopted.
After Section IX, the Acting Attorney General moves the insertion of the following clause, to be called Section X. "In all cases when it seems expedient that any prisoner convicted of "any crime and actually undergoing sentence of imprisonment should be released and deported "it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order such prisoner to be deported."
Clause adopted.
In Section XVI, relating to lepers, the Acting Attorney General moves, that after the words "Chinese Authorities" be added the words "and on being found within this Colony a "second time, shall be liable to deportation by order of the Governor."
Motion carried.
Certain other verbal alterations and amendments are made, after which the Bill is com- mitted and passed, bearing the Title of "An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate and amend the Ordinances relating to Deportation, Conditional Pardons, the Branding and Punishment of certain Criminals, and the Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, entitled 'An Ordinance for better securing the Peace of the Colony,' "--being "No. 8 of 1876."