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Supplementary Vote
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second - ed, and this was agreed to.
Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance, 1914
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL I beg to move that the consideration of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend fur- ther the Alien Enemies Winding up Ordi- nance. 1914, be adjourned to the next meeting of the Council.
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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and this was agreed to.
Enemy Trading
THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled. Trading with the Enemy Ordinance. 1914. In doing so he said The objects. and reasons given in the Bill laid upon the table make it unnecessary for me to say very much on this Bill. The main object of it is to introduce here the pro- visions of the United Kingdom Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916.. which was passed in January this year. Most of the clauses deal with formal, minor or technical details. Clause 7, I
An Ordinance to amend further the
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled.
· An Ordinance to authorize the appro- priation of a supplementary sum of three inillions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to defray the Charges of the yeal
1915. In doing so he said In moving the first reading of this Bil 1 directed the attention of hon. members to the statement in the Treasurer's report in which the large increase in expenditure last year was explained. The method of pre- senting the assets and liabilities of the Colony has been revised, and they are now on a cash basis. The position, in- stead of being obscured by advances made to the railway in anticipation of a loan, is now cleared by debiting the general account with all expenditure over and above that derived from the actual cash payments received On account of the Wuchang loan, the last of which
was paid in October. Although nominally the amount re- quired in this Bill is a very large one, it will be seen that it is made up of only a few items. There is the large item for Kowloon-Canton Railway, which I have already referred to, of $3,036,199, and there are other items under the heading think, is one of the few clauses which re- quire any special notice. The clause pro- of miscellaneous services"; on account vides that the various restrictions on deal- of loss in subsidiary coins. a sum of ing with enemy property shall continue $484057: n account of the maintenance
not only during the continuance of th: of the soners of war. $65,266: and
present war, but thereafter until special war expenditure, $175,091. These
such time as they three items are such as could not be by order of the Governor-in-Council. In removed forescen, and with the railway expendi- connection with this clause I do not think tur practically make up the amount re-
I can do better than read the explanation quired under this Bill. In all the de-given by the Solicitor-General when he partments of the Government, with the introduced the English Act into the exception of the railway, there was a
House of Commons. He said: When saving in the estimated expenditure last year, amounting to a considerable sum in
peace is declared the existing restrictions the case of the Harbour Master's Depart remittances to eneinies abroad will cease on dealing with the enemy and in making ment, the Imports and Exports Depart- before there is time to investigate and ment, and the Public Works Department, consider the treatment of British pre- and I think the explanatory remarks in perty in enemy countries. The object of each case will show how those savings this clause is that there shall be an inter- came about.
I beg to move the second val during which the whole position of reading.
property here and abroad can be consider- ed and adjusted before a general release of property takes place, and the proposal is that the date of this general release shail be fixed by Order-in-Council, which can be made as soon as matters are assur- ed." A similar clause had already
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the Bill was read a second time.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.
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been proposed here in connection with the local liquidations, and it is now em- bodied in the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Bill, which will come before Council at the next meeting. The only other clause I would like to refer to is clause 10. That clause imposes certain restric- tions on dealings by enemy subjects in connection with Hongkong Companies, and the only thing I would like to point out with regard to that clause is that it is merely a particular instance of the pro- hibition which has been enforced in Hong- kong since December, 1914, under the Ordinance passed in that month all per in the Colony being prohibited from dealing in any way with any
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THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to consolidate and amen the law relating to the registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the re- gulation of the sale and use of Poisons.” In doing so he said This Bill has three objects. One is to consolidate the law relating to pharmaceutical chemists and poisons. Anyone who has had to deal with the Ordinances as they stand at present will recognise the need for the consolidation. The second object is to a certain part of the Opium re-enact Ordinance 1909, which was not included The in the Opium Ordinance, 1914. subjects except with your Excellency's provisions of that part refer to the in-
This permission.
beenjection of morphine and cocaine and restric- taken from the English Act, and it is similiar things and certain
tions
Under a more detailed and more particular pro-
the sale of them. Bill
it stands it will be hibition, whereas the other was a general the or universal prohibition. Three sections illegal for any person to administer by of the English Act have not been adopted injection any poison in part 3 of the in this Bill. One is a section which gives schedule, including morphine and cocaine, power now in England to wind up firms except on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner. It will also be illegal of enemy nationality or enemy associa- tion. That section, of course, is unneces-
to supply any poison within that part of sary here because the policy of winding the schedule unless on the prescription of The a registered medical practitioner. was adopted in this up enemy firms Colony in October, 1914. It was adopted third object of the Bill is the revision
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re-arrangement, which was also in England in January of this year.
I necessary, of the schedule of poisons. Another section of the English Act which has not been included is section 5, which beg to move the second reading. requires enemy subjects within the United Kingdom to report to the Custodian par-seconded. ticulars of shares or other property valued at £50 or upwards held by them. Section 6, which deals with the grant to the Custodian of patent rights in the case of pending applications by enemy sub- jects. The clause enables the grant to be made to the Custodian for the completion of patent rights, I beg to move the second reading.
Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
The Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council re- suming,
THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.
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Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
In Clause 13, (3) (b), the word "person" was substituted for the words licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine."
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In Clause 14 the words or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under the Ordinance
were added. In Clause 15 (a) and (c) the word registered was inserted before the words medical practitioner.”
On Council resuming.
THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.
HIS EXCELLENCY left the Chair and the Council went into Finance Com mittce.
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