1893.1
PUBLIC LOAN.
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The Governor may borrow the sum of two hundred thousand Power to under by the sale of Inscribed Stock under the provisions of the General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance, 1893.
Governor to borrow £200,000. No. 1 of 1893.
Fund.
3. The contribution to the Sinking Fund as contemplated in sections Contribution and 8 of the said Ordinance shall commence at the expiration of three years from the date on which the interest on the Inscribed Stock to be issued under this Ordinance shall begin to accrue.
SCHEDULE.
LIST OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Praya Reclamation.
Central Market.
Slaughter-House, Cattle and Sheep and Pig Depôts.
Water, Drainage, and Sewerage Works.
Extension and Improvement of the Gaol.
Preamble.
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1893.
A.D. 1893.
Ordinance
AN ORDINANCE to amend the Marriage Ordinance, 1875. No. 3 of 1893.
[17th January, 1893.]
WHEREAS it is expedient in certain cases to permit marriage in articulo mortis without previous compliance with certain preliminary requirements of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875 :
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
No. 7 of 1875.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage in Articulo Mortis Ordinance, 1893.
2. (1) It shall be lawful for any competent minister to celebrate a marriage, without the previous delivery to him of the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence, in the following special cases, that is to say, where the marriage is between two persons who have lived together in unlawful concubinage and one of them is in articulo mortis.
Provided as follows:-
(a) no such marriage shall be celebrated unless both the parties are able to signify their consent thereto and do so in the presence of two witnesses.
marriage in may be celebrated and its celebration.
conditions of