ROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 5.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1866.
VOL. XII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 1 or 1866.
MONDAY, 22ND JANUARY, 1866.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR and all the Members.
The Council net to-day by special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 27th November last, were read and approved.
The ACTING GOVERNOR read Despatch, No. 174 of the 12th October last, from The SECRETARY OF STATE, directing amendments in some of the Criminal Laws of Hongkong, as also a Report from the ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE on the subject,-accompanied by a Draft Ordinance to amend Ordinances No. 4, No. 5, No. 7, and No. 8 of 1865.
This Draft was laid on the Table and read a first time, as a Bili entitled "An Ordinance to amend certain Enactments relating to the Criminal Law."
The Council then adjourned to Monday, the 29th Instant, at Noon.
Read and approved, this 29th Day of January, 1866.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG,
ANNO VICESIMO NONO VICTORIA REGINE.
No. 1 of 1866.
W. T. MERCER,
Acting Governor.
By His Excellency WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
W. T. MERCER.
. An Ordinance to amend certain Enactments relating to the Criminal Law.
[29th January, 1866.]
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of
The Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
Title.
1. There shall be expunged from Section LII of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865, the Section 52 of Ordi- Words whether the Second Marriage shall have taken place in this Colony or amended.
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sewhere," and also the Words "to any Second Marriage contracted elsewhere than in this Colony by any other than a Subject of Her Majesty, or."
nance No. 4 of 1865
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