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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 14.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH APRIL, 1872.
VOL. XVIII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 2 of 1872.
MONDAY, 25TH MARCH, 1872.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.M.G., & C.B.
The Honorable the Acting Chief Justice (HENRY JOHN BALL).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honorable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honorable JAMES GREIG.
The Council meets this Day at 3 P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 26th February, are read and confirmed.
His Excellency lays on the Table an amended Bill for the more effectual Prevention of Crime and directs the withdrawal of the one which was read a first time on the 1st November, 1871, and published in the Government Gazette of the 18th November.
The Bill on the Table is then read a first time.
Read a first time a Bill to provide for the Oral Examination of Prisoners.
Read a first time a Bill to provide for the Trial and Punishment of Offenders found at large within the
Colony, in violation of any Conditional Pardon.
This Bill, His Excellency states, is introduced in substitution for Ordinance No. 5 of 1871, an amendment of which was ordered by the Secretary of State in His Lordship's Despatch of the 30th November, No. 146, which is laid on the Table and read.
Read a first time a Bill to make Provision for the Branding and Punishment of Criminals in certain Cases. His Excellency states the grounds and reasons upon which this Bill is founded, and reads Extracts from a Řeport by Mr. Attorney General PAUNCEFOTE, of the 23rd May, 1870, containing a Digest of Correspondence with the Secretary of State on the subject.
Read a first time a Bill to prevent certain Nuisances.
Read a first time a Bill to amend Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled “An Ordinance for the Establishment "of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong," to reconstitute the said Court, and to abolish the Summary Jurisdiction Court.
His Excellency states the grounds and reasons upon which this Bill is founded. Read a first time a Bill “to consolidate the Procedure and Practice of the Supreme Court and amend the Provisions of the Law relating thereto, and to give to the Supreme Court Summary Jurisdiction in certain Cases.
Whereupon, by Command of His Excellency, the Bill to amend the Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance, No. 7 of 1862,-which was read a second time and committed on the 16th Novem- ber, 1871,-is withdrawn.