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HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE. No. 1 of 1857.
By His Excellency Stx JoHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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 for Intestates' Estates.
[3d January, 1857.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. Ordinance No. 5 of 1855 is hereby repealed, and Ordinance No. 6 of 1854 (with the exception of Repeal of Ordinance Section Five of the last-mentioned Ordinance) is hereby revived.
No. 5 of 1855, and re- vivor of Ordinance No.
IL. The Officer administering the Government of this Colony shall, from time to time, as occasion shall & of 1854, (except Sec- require, repay or make good to any persons preferring and duly proving their Claims to the same after Con- tion 5.) fiscation thereof for Colonial purposes under Section Three of Ordinance No. 6 of 1854, all Funds so, Subsequent claims to confiscated; and all Monies in the Treasury forming part of, or arising from, the general Revenue of the be made good out of said Colony, shall be applicable in so repaying or making good the same.
the General Revenue of the Colony.
III. It shall be lawful for any Claimant, under Section Two of this Ordinance, in case his Clain shall Power to uusnecess not be allowed by the said Officer, to present his summary Petition in that behalf to the Supreme Court in ful Claimants to Peti-
in Equity. Equity, against the Queen's Attorney General as Respondent thereto; and if he shall verify his said Claim tion the Supreme Court by Evidence to the satisfaction of the said Supreme Court, it shall be the duty of the said Court to make such Order in the premises as justice shall require; and upon the application of the same, or any other Claimant or Person, or of the said Attorney General, from time to time to vary the same and to enforce every such Order according to the practice of the Supreme Court.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 3d Day of January, 1857.
L. D'ALM ADA & CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
JOHN BOWRING.
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