[Signature of A. E. Shelley] Clerk of Councils
[Signature of A. E. Shelley] Clerk of CouncilsMinutes of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
for the half year from 1st January to the 30th June 1846.
14th January 1846.
Present. His Excellency Sir J. F. Davis Bart: Governor.
Honorable Major General D'Aguilar.
Honorable J. W. Hulme, Chief Justice.
Honorable J. P. Sterling, Attorney General.
Read a 1st time ordinance No. 1 of 1846, entitled "An ordinance to amend the ordinance No. 4 of 1844" entitled "An ordinance to restrain Masters of Merchant Vessels belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects from leaving Seamen and others in a destitute state in the Colony of Hongkong and refusing to convey distressed Seamen from thence to England and also to provide for Seamen within the same" ordered to be sent round to Members.
Read a first time ordinance No. 2 of 1846, entitled "An ordinance to amend ordinance No. 9 of 1844 entitled "An ordinance to restrain all persons within the Colony of Hongkong from trading in the Empire of China to the Northward of the 32d degree of N Latitude."
signed. J. F. Davis
Read and approved
this 23rd day of January 1846.
sgd) A. E. Shelley
Clerk of Councils.