DIEL
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 12.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23RD MARCH, 1861.
VOL. VII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 1 of 1861.
SATURDAY, 23RD FEBRUARY, 1861.
PRESENT:
His Excellency The GOVERNOR, and all the Members.
The Council merto-day by special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 17th December last, were read and approved.
Read a first time a Bill to amend the "Probates" Ordinance, No. 8 of 1860.
The Jury List for the Year commencing on the 1st of March, 1861, was revised and amended,-
Sixty-one of the Names therein being designated as "Special Jurors."
The Council adjourned sine die.
Read and approved, this 23rd Day of March, 1861. :
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON,
Governor.
ANNO VICESIMO QUARTO VICTORIA REGINÆ.
No. 1 of 1861.
By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, 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.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 8 of 1860.
[23rd March, 1861.]
Whereas it is necessary to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1860, intituled An Ordinance to amend the Law in relation to the Grant and Revocation of Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration in Ilongkong: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
Preamble.
10 & 11 of No. 8 of 1800.
I. Sections Ten and Eleven of Ordinance No. 8 of 1860 are hereby repealed and Repeal of sections instead thereof there shall be substituted the following two Sections to be numbered respectively Ten and Eleven, that is to say-
fore whom to be made
Parts.
X. Affidavits Declarations or Affirmations of Persons residing in Foreign Parts Affidavits, &c., be- if sworn declared or affirmed before the Persons empowered to administer Oaths when Persons making under the Act of the 6th Geo. IV. cap. 87 or under the Act of the 18th and 19th them restic in l'oreign Vict. cap. 42 before my Foreign local Magistrate or other Person having authority to administer an Oath in places where there are no such Persons as are mentioned in the said Acts may be used in the said Court in its Probate Jurisdiction.