REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
STANDING LAW COMMITTEE
ON A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Stamps and Stamp Duty in the Colony of Hongkong.
PRESENT:-
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK), Chairman.
Dr. Ho KAI.
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T. H. WHITEHEAD.
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J. J. BELL-IRVING. WEI YUK.
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I, HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, Acting Attorney General, Chairman of the Standing Law Committee, do hereby certify that meetings of the Standing Law Committee on a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Stamps and Stamp Duty in the Colony of Hongkong, were held on the 1st and 14th days of August, 1901, and that at such meetings the said Bill was con- sidered clause by clause in the presence of all the Members of such Standing Law Committee, and that, in the opinion of such Standing Law Committee, such Bill may be dealt with by the Council in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council;
And I do also hereby certify that, at the aforesaid meetings of the said Standing Law Committee, the following amendments to the said Bill were unanimously agreed to by the Standing Law Com- mittee, namely:
1. In Article 2 of the First Schedule, that "oath" be substituted for “oatk”.
2. In paragraph (a) of Article 43 of the First Schedule that "two hundred and fifty" be
substituted for "five hundred ".
3. In the Second Schedule that the figures "44" (to be followed by a coinma) be inserted
before the figures “46".
The Committee also unanimously recommended that steps should be taken, by means of procla- mations and leaflets, to inform the Chinese of the necessity for taking out representation to the estates of deceased persons and also of the provisions of section 22 of this Bill which impose a penalty for default in taking out Probate or Administration.
H. E. POLLOCK, Acting Attorney General, Chairman of the Standing Law Committee.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 29th day of August, 1901.
C. CLEMENTI, Acting Clerk of Councils.