No. 91.
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Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1855.
· GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant -Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
By Order,
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 5 of 1855.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
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.
REPEAL ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1854, ENTITLED 'AN OR- AN ORDINANCE TO DINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF UNCLAIMED BALANCES OF THE ESTATES OF PERSONS DYING INTESTATE WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG," AND TO SUB- STITUTE OTHER PROVISIONS IN LIEU THEREOF,
[14th June, 1855.] WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal the aforesaid Ordinance No. 6 of 1854, and to substitute in lieu thereof other Provisions :----
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Preamble.
I. BE it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hong- Ordinance No. kong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said Ordinance be 6 of 1854 repealed. and the same is hereby repealed.
II. AND whereas certain sums of money have been for many years past and now Balances of Intes- are lying in custody of the Officers in Charge of the Public Treasure Vault of this tate Estates when Colony, which sums have been delivered to such custody by the Official Administra- unclaimed for six years, to be re- tor of Intestate Estates as unclaimed Balances of certain such Estates, after full satis- mitted to Her Ma- faction according to a scheme of division of all claims proved against such Estates, jesty's Treasury. and in pursuance of the terms of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845; and whereas it is ex- pedient to relieve the said Officers from the responsibility attendant on such custody: Be it further enacted and ordained, that on the expiration of six years from the date of the decease of any person dying Intestate, it shall be lawful for the Governor or Officer administering the Government of this Colony to direct the remittal of all Funds which shall be in the Colonial Treasury as the unclaimed Estate of any intestate to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to be dealt with according to law: Provided always, that a certificate be given by the Official Administrator of In- testate Estates showing that due advertisement has been made for claims against such trator's certificate Estate, and for claims against such Balance of such Estate, and that, so far as is known to such Official Administrator, no further claim to be made in this Colony can reasonably be expected against such Balance of such Estate.
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