That it may be agreeable to Your Majesty's pleasure that this Ordinance be confirmed and allowed.
Her Majesty has been pleased to confirm and allow this Ordinance.
Her Majesty's decision to be signified to the inhabitants of Hong Kong by a Proclamation to be published in the usual and authentic manner.
HONGKONG.
ANNO DUODECIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 2 of 1849.
BY His Excellency SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1846, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG."
[15th March, 1849.]
WHEREAS it has been found desirable to enable the Supreme Court to carry into execution the provisions of the said last mentioned Ordinance, as well during the vacations of the Court as at the stated periods of its sitting:
Be it therefore enacted and ordained, That from and after the passing of this Ordinance it shall and may be lawful to and for the Chief Justice of the said Supreme Court, when it shall appear to him expedient so to act, to make any Order or Decree, and do all other Acts, which he is empowered to make or do under the said Ordinance No. 3 of 1846, in Chambers, and upon any days or time out of the Terms or stated Sittings of the said Court.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 15th day of March, 1849.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
S. G. BONHAM.
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Leithrinda Lastry
Clerk of Councils.