ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1860.
Probate and Administration.
and for copies of and extracts from records, wills, and other documents in the custody or under the control of the said Court, and the said Chief Justice with such concurrence as aforesaid is hereby empowered, from time to time after this Ordinance shall come into operation, to add to, reduce, alter, or amend such table or tables of fees, as may seem fit: Provided that every such table of fees, and every addition, reduction, alteration, or amendment to, in, or of the same, shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and no other fees than those specified and allowed in such table of fees shall be demanded or taken by such officers, and proctors, solicitors and attorneys.
Administration to deceased Police
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44. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony under the rank of Inspector and dying here whilst so employed shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of the foregoing sections of this Ordinance; but the Superintendent of Police for the time being is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their estates and required to get in and administer the same with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and within one month after the decease of any such person to certify the same and the amount in value of the estate and effects of such persons by certificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court for registry in the said Court. And shall also pay over to the Colonial Treasurer the balance of every such estate after payment of all lawful claims: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary upon the application of the Superintendent of Police at any time to sign an order upon the Colonial Treasurer for the payment of the whole or any part of such balance.
45. Where letters of administration have been or shall have been granted by the said Court the Official Administrator shall within one month after receiving any money belonging to any estate to the amount of one hundred dollars clear of all just allowances and deductions pay the same into the hands of the Colonial Treasurer for the time being to the credit of the said estate, unless the Chief Justice upon a written statement of facts shall report it will be more expedient for the said estate to be otherwise held or disposed of. And such Treasurer shall receive from the Official Administrator as aforesaid all such sums of money as he shall tender to him and shall carry the same to the credit of such estates as the said Official Administrator shall specify giving him at the same time a receipt for the specific sums so paid in, and whenever the said
Payment of money into Treasury.