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Act not to extend to Scotland.
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tlement "out of such
The Honghong Government Gazette.
[APRIL 24, 1858.
XVI. No Misdemeanor against this Act shall be prosecuted or tried at any Court or General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace.
XVII. The Word Trustce" shall in this Act mean a Trustee on some express Trust created by some Deed, Will, or Instrument in Writing, and shall also include the Heir and Personal Representative any such Trustee, and also all Executors and Administrators, Liquidators under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, and all Assignees in Bankruptcy and Insolvency:
of
The Word Property" shall include every Description of Real and Personal Property, Goods, raw or other Materials, Money, Debts, and Legacies, and all Deeds and Instruments relating to or evidencing the Title or Right to any Property, or giving a Right to recover or receive any Money or Goods; and such Word Property shall also denote and include not only such Real and Personal Property as may have been the original Subject of a Trust, but also any Real or Personal Property into which the same may have been converted or exchanged, and the Proceeds thereof respectively, and anything acquired by such Proceeds.
XVIII. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.
ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
CAP. LVII.
An Act to enable Married Women to dispose of Reversionary Interests in Personal Estate.
[25th August 1857.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I. After the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, it shall be may dispose of Rever- lawful for every Married Woman by Deed to dispose of every future or Reversionary Interest, whether sionary Interests in vested or contingent, of such Married Woman, or her Husband in her Right, in any Personal Estate Personal Estate, and release Powers over
whatsoever to which she shall be entitled under any Instrument made after the said Thirty-first Day of such Estate, and also December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (except such a Settlement as after mentioned), and their Rights to a Set- also to release or extinguish any Power which may be vested in or limited or reserved to her in regard to any such Personal Estate, as fully and effectually as she could do if she were a Feme Sole, and also to Estate in possession. release and extinguish her Right or Equity to a Settlement out of any Personal Estate to which she, or her Husband in her Right, may be entitled in possession under any such Instrument as aforesaid save and except that no such Disposition, Release, or Extinguishment shall be valid unless the Husband concur in the Deed by which the same shall be effected, nor unless the Deed be acknowledged by her as hereinafter directed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any Reversionary Interest to which she shall become entitled by virtue of any Deed, Will, or Instrument by which she shall be restrained from alienating or affecting the same.
of the Purposes II. Every Deed to be executed in England or Wales by a Married Woman for any alged by Married of this Act shall be acknowledged by her, and be otherwise perfected, in the Manner in and by the Act Women in the Manner passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled required by 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 74. for disposing An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assur- or ance, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Powers over Land in Women in Land; and every Deed to be executed in Ireland by a Married Woman for any of the England or Wales; Purposes of this Act shall be acknowledged by her and be otherwise perfected in the Manner in and by
Deeds to be acknow-
of Interests in
& 5 W. 4. c. 92.
the Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, To Ireland, as by 4 intituled An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and the Substitution of more simple_Modes of Assurance, in Ireland, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Women in Land; and all and singular the Clauses and Provisions in the said Acts concerning the Disposition of Lands by Married Women, including the Provisions for dispensing with the Concur- rence of the Husbands of Married Women, in the Cases in the said Acts mentioned, shall extend and be applicable to such Interests in Personal Estate and to such Powers as may be disposed of, released, or extinguished by virtue of this Act, as fully and effectually as if such Interests or Powers were Interests in or Powers over Land.
The Powers of Dis-
III. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition given to a Married Woman by this Act shall position given by this not interfere with any Power which independently of this Act may be vested in or limited or reserved to Act not to interfere her, so as to prevent her from exercising such Power in any Case, except so far as by any Disposition with any other Powers.
made by her under this Act she may be prevented from so doing, in consequence of such Power having Act not to extend to been suspended or extinguished by such Disposition.
Settlements of Married
IV. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition hereby given to a Married Woman shall not Women upon Marri- enable her to dispose of any Interest in Personal Estate settled upon her by any Settlement or Agreement
Not to extend to for a Settlement made on the Occasion of her Marriage.
V. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.
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Scotland.
No. 18.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Roturns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF NINGPO, during the Year 1857, be published for general information.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th April, 1858.
G. W. CAINE.
No. 1.-RETURN of BRITISHI SHIPPING at the Port or Nixero, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.
NO. IN REGISTER.
SHIP'S NAME
TONNAGE,
ARRIVED FROM.
CARGO INAABAA,
LOADED FOR.
CARGO OUTWARDS.
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Freak,
2
3
Inkerman,
Tashing,
Vivid, Foam, Victory, Lanrick,
283
Cleopatra,
Paousan,
10
Inkerman,
11
Pacucheen,
12
Lirk,
13
Vivid,
14
Tashing,
15
Nina,
16
Emily Annina,
17
Puousan,
18
Vivid,
JAERUNCATATENTUHKA
45
Foochow
Paper
53
Shanghae
Drills
Fishing Stations Shanglue
None Wood
35
Wanchow
Rice
Wanchow
None
Alum
Foochow
**
Shanghae
Iron
Shanghae
97
25
"
Re-exports
Poochow
Peas
34
Wanchow
Rice Alum
Hongkong
Alum
7
None
Shanghae
"
Shanghae
Drills
Wood None
Wanchow
None
Wanchow
Foochow
Paper
Shanghae,
Shanghae Wanchow
Rattans, Iron
Pencake None
Rice
Wanchow
149
Formosa Shanghae
Sugar
Hongkong
Grain
None
Peas
"7
13
70
Drills
Rattans
Shanghae
Wood
Nono