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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 6.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1874.
VOL. XX.
No. 3.
[L.S.] A. E. KENNEDY.
PROCLAMATION,
By His 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 Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances; namely:-
No. 12 of 1873, entitled,-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice
of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Constitution of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Colony ;
No. 13 of 1873, entitled,-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in the Supreme Court of the Colony, and to provide a Uniform Code of Procedure at Common Law and in Equity;
No. 14 of 1873, entitled,-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to abolish the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and to confer upon the Supreme Court a Summary Jurisdiction at Law and in Equity:
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 4th Day of February, 1874.
No. 20.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the Year 1873, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1874.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.