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shall be on a Side or Page or other Portion of the Paper or Papers containing the Will whereon no Clause or Paragraph or disposing Part of the Will shall be written above the Signature, or by the Circumstance that there shall appear to be sufficient Space on or at the Bottom of the preceding Side or Page or other Portion of the same Paper on which the Will is written to contain the Signature; and the Enumeration of the above Circumstances shall not restrict the Generality of the above Enactment; but no Signature under the said Act or this Act shall be operative to give Effect to any Disposition or Direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give Effect to any Disposition or Direction inserted after the Signature shall be made.
II. The Provisions of this Act shall extend and be applied to every Will already certain Wills al made, where Administration or Probate has not already been granted or ordered by ready made.
a Court of competent Jurisdiction in consequence of the defective Execution of such Will, or where the Property, not being within the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts, has not been possessed or enjoyed by some Person or Persons claining to be entitled thereto in consequence of the defective Execution of such Will, or the Right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other Person or Persons than the Persons claiming under the Will, by a Court of competent Jurisdiction, in conse- quence of the defective Execution of such Will.
Internretation
of " Will."
Short Title of Act.
III The Word Will" shall in the Construction of this Act be interpreted in like Manner as the same is directed to be interpreted under the Provisions in this Behalf contained in the said Act of the First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
IV. This Act may be cited as "The Wills Act Amendment Act 1852."
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Wanted a passage to Penang for Thirty four Chinese Convicts. Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary,
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 26th May, 1855.
NOTICE.
undersigned having this day admitted W.
1 JAMES BROWN as a partner in his businees, the
same will in future be carried on under the style of
GASKELL and BROWN.
Victoria, 1st June, 1855.
Wm. GASKELL,
Solicitor, Notary Public, &c.,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Victoria.
THE undersigned has received Instructions from the Colonial Secretary, to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION
THE
at the Premises of Messrs. W. SCOTT, & Co., Queen's
Road, on Wednesday, 6th June, 1855, at 11 o'clock A.M.,
the undermentioned Chinese Emigration Clothing and
other Articles, consisting of:
500 Wadded JACKETS,
500 SUITS Black Cotton,
500 SUITS of Nankeen,
500 Wadded WAISCOATS, 1,000 Pairs STOCKINGS, 1,000 Pairs SHOES,
500 Wadded COVERLETS,
250 Bamboo HATS, Broad Brim,
250 Do. do., Narrow Brim,
500 Felt CAPS,
126 Wadded JACKETS,
134 SUITS Black Cotton,
152 Nankeen TROWSERS, 181 Do. JACKETS,
179 Wadded WAISCOATS,
233 Pairs STOCKINGS,
171 Pairs SHOES,
161 Wadded COVERLETS,
150 Bamboo HATS,
4 Dozens PLANKS and TRESSELS.
Terms of Sale.— Cash before delivery in weighed MEXICAN DOLLARS.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1855.
CHARLES MARKWICK,
Government Auctioneer,
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cember, and MR. ROBERT FORRESTER THORBURN
became a partner on 1st January, 1855.
Canton, 6th March, 1855.
TURNER & Co.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
THE next GENERAL MAILS by the P. & O. Steamer CADIZ, will be closed on Saturday, the 9th June, at 6 P.M., and the customary SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following Morning between the Hours
of 9 and 10 o'clock.
Post-Office, Victoria. Hongkong,
26th May, 1855.
THOMAS HYLAND,
Post-Master.