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I. The Provisions of the Ordinance No. 3 of 1844, respecting Judgments, (subject to the Provisions einafter contained) shall extend to "Lites Pendentes," within the intent and meaning of the Acts of may be registered as
ament passed in the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eleven, and the Thirteenth and a Judgment. teenth Years of Her said Majesty, Chapter Thirty-five.
II. The memorial of any such "Lis Pendens” shall be sufficient for the purposes of the said Ordinance, Form of Memorial. be signed by the Plaintiffs or persons claiming to be Plaintiffs in the said “Lis Pendens,” and contain Names and Additions of the said persons, and of the Defendants or persons whose Estate is intended to affected thereby, and the Day when the Bill, Information, or special Case was filed, and the Sum of Money thereby claimed or in controversy, yet so as that the said Memorial shall be verified in all other
pects as by the said Ordinance is in the case of Judgments provided.
III.
No other Registry to be made, and Notwithstanding the said Acts of Parliament, no “Lis Pendens" shall be registered in the Re-
an unregistered “Lis try of the Supreme Court, or elsewhere than in the Land Office, under this Ordinance; and a Li Pendens" not registered in the said office, and in due conformity with this Ordinance, shall not bind Pendens" not to bind
Purchaser or Mortgagee of the Estate intended to be thereby affected.
IV. So much of the said Acts of Parliament and of the Acts of Parliament passed in the Third and arth Years of Her said Majesty, Chapter Eleven, and the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her said *jesty, Chapter Fifteen, as require the Re-registering of Judgments and Lites Pendentes after every suc- sive period of Five Years beginning from the entry thereof respectively, shall extend to all Judgments, Pendentes, and Orders, now or hereafter to be registered in the said Land Office, and by which it is tended to affect any Estate.
a Purchaser, &c.
Defining the Exten-
rial Enactments. sion of certain Impe-
V. Subject to the provisions of Section Eleven of the said Act of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Effect of Registry and Years of Her said Majesty, Chapter Fifteen, for the Relief of Purchasers and Mortgagees for valuable Con- Re-registry, and Ex-
Vict. c. 15, (S.11.) deration, against the Judgments, Crown Debts, and Liabilities, of paid-off Mortgagees (and which Pro- tension of 18 and 19
ons are hereby extended to this Colony,) every Lis Pendens, Registered or Re-registered, and also every Order or Judgment Re-registered in manner aforesaid, shall have the same Force and Effect as a Judg- rent registered in conformity with the said Ordinance No. 3 of 1844, and not further or otherwise. !
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 16th Day of April, 1856.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro, Clerk of Councils.
JOHN BOWRING.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Draft Ordinances, namely:
An Ordinance for Lighting the City of Victoria ;
An Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony
of Hongkong;
· An· Ördinance for the Admission of Candidates to the Rolls of Practitioners in the Supreme Court;
■lich were read a first time before the Legislative Council on the 19th Instant, are hereby published for general information.
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L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. of 1856.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Lighting the City of Victoria.
May, 1856.
Be it Preamble.
Whereas it is desirable that a system of Public Lighting should be introduced into this City: acted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. For defraying the Expenses of and incident to the execution of this Ordinance, there shall be levied « The Lighting Rate." Quarterly, together with and in addition to the Police Rate or Rates for the year, a further Rate to be on the gross amount of the Property called "The Lighting Rate,” and estimated at
cluded in the Police Rate Assessment for the current year; and all the Provisions of the Ordinances No. * of 1845 and No. 3 of 1851 touching Valuation, Assessment, Levy, and Appeal, shall extend and apply to We said "Lighting Rate."
The Surveyor-Ge- II. The Surveyor-General shall from time to time cause a sufficient number of Irons or Posts for the ighting of the Streets, Roads, Ways, and Public Thoroughfares of the City of Victoria to be provided, and neral to provide and the same to be set up, fixed, or erected, in all suitable Situations for such lighting, and either in any of the fix Lamps, &c., and Streets, Roads, Ways, and Thoroughfares, or in any Close adjacent thereto, or upon or against the Wall keep them lighted. any House or Building, or the Side of any Wall or Fence, or elsewhere, as he shall think proper; and he all also from time to time cause to be provided, and put, and affixed upon the said Irons and Posts, and
be lighted with Oil for any number of hours in every twenty-four hours, such a number of Lamps, and of
ch Sizes and Sorts respectively, as shall be found requisite for the Lighting of the said Streets, Roads, Ways, and Thoroughfares respectively.
III. The Laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away, or stealing of Fixtures and Chattels Laws relating to #pectively, shall be interpreted to apply to the removing, tuking, carrying away, or stealing of the said Irons, Removal or Felony of Pats Lamps, and Oil respectively, by any persons whomsoever; and the Property of and in all such articles Fixtures and Chattels, all be deemed to be vested in the Surveyor-General for all the purposes of any Action, Suit, or Information extended to Lamps, ught or preferred against any person for or in respect of the same, or for or in respect of any Trespass, jury, Misdemeanor, or Felony done or committed in respect of any of the said articles.
Irons, &c.
Wilful Damage, how
IV. If any person shall wilfully extinguish the Light of any such Lamp, or wilfully injure, displace, or age any such Lamp or any other of the said articles, every such offender shall, upon conviction thereof punishable. ere any Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay for every such Offence a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars ees than Five Dollars, and shall further forfeit and pay the full amount of the Damage by him so done resaid, and all incidental Costs and Expenses.