Aliens (Rights of Property).
CHAPTER 185.
ALIENS (RIGHTS OF PROPERTY)
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To remove doubts regarding the right of aliens to hold and originally transfer property within this Colony.
[17th November, 1853.]
WHEREAS doubts have arisen regarding the right of aliens to hold and transfer property within this Colony:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof in pursuance of the Act of Parliament 10 and 11 Victoria, chapter 83, intituled "An Act for the Naturalization of Aliens", and the power inherent in the said Governor in Council as follows:
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2 of 1853. Fraser. 1 of 1853.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Aliens (Rights of Property) Ordinance.
2. It shall be lawful for any alien, and he is hereby declared entitled, by grant, conveyance, lease, assignment, bequest or otherwise, to take, acquire, hold, and possess any lands or other immovable property situated in this Colony and the said lands or other property as aforesaid to sell, transfer, assign, or bequeath to any other person as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and with the same rights, remedies, exemptions, and privileges, as if he were a natural-born subject of His Majesty residing in this Colony.
3. Every such grant, conveyance, lease, assignment, bequest, sale, transfer, or other act heretofore made or done by or with any such alien shall be deemed in law as valid and effectual as if it had been made or done by or with any natural-born British subject.
Validation of grants, etc. by aliens.
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