27th October 1845
Present His Excellency Sir J. F. Davis Bart
Hon: Major General D'Aguilar
Hon: The Chief Justice
Hon: The Attorney General
The minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
Read a 2nd time and passed Ordinance No. 13 of 1845, entitled "An Ordinance to establish a Licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hong Kong and for the better regulation of Lascars resorting thereto," which was ordered to be printed and published.
Signed, J. F. Davis
Read and approved
this 6th day of November 1845
signed, A. E. Shelley
Clerk of the Council