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Enclosure 3.
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I certify that adequate and timely notification was made of the intention of the parties concerned to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for an Ordinance styled "An Ordinance to authorise the Bank of Canton Limited to convert its silver capital into gold" before the same wae brought into the Legislative Council. Such notification was made in the manner following:-
Notification of the intention of the parties to
apply for the said Ordinance was advertised in two issues of the Goverment Gazette on the 2nd. and 9th May, 1919; in two issues of one English Newspaper circulating in the Colony, namely,
The Hongkong Daily Press on the 3rd. and 5th May, 1919; and in two issues of one Chinese Newspaper circulating in the Colony, namely,
The Chinese Commercial News on the 10th and 12th May,
1919.
A draft of the proposed said Ordinance was further published
in two issues of the Government Gazette on the 2nd. and 9th
May, 1919,
Aproof of the notification was made before me in
Executive Council,
AndSevern
Officer Administering the Government,
Hongkong,
June, 1919,