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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
The Revised Ordinances of
Hongkong
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I beg, Sir, to move the first reading of a Bill intituled, An Ordinance for promoting the revision of the Ordinances of Hongkong. As hon. members are aware, a new edition of the ordinances of the Colony has been in preparation for some time past and is now nearing completion. We hope that the five volumes containing the ordi- nances will be available to the public in about a month's time. The index is not ready but will be prepared later. It is also proposed at present to issue as a seventh volume what is contained in volume III of the present edition, with additions bringing that volume up to date. The last edition of the ordinances was that prepared by the hon. member who now represents on this Council the Justices of the Peace (the Hon. Mr. Alabaster).
That brought them up to 1912 and in the present edition the scheme of work adopted in the 1912 edition has been followed. In the general revision ordinance the editor was given power to make purely formal alterations and he is required to submit any other amendments to this Council in the form of an ordinance. The present Bill contains these amendments. The Bill has been drafted by the Editor, Mr. Dyer Ball, now Mr. Justice Dyer Ball. The ordinance may seem to members very long but it represents ground covered in the last edition by, I think, over a dozen ordi- nances. I may say the new edition does not, of course, make any change in sub- stance in the law of the Colony, but is confined to omitting spent legislation, correcting mistakes and achieving uni- formity in form and expression.
I beg
to move that the Bill be read a first time.
The Council resolved itself into Com- mittee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
The Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and on Council resuming it was read a third time and passed into law.
The Adjournment
H.E. THE GOVERNOR-Instead of meet- ing next week, the Council, for the con- venience of the Attorney-General, is adjourned till this day fortnight at 2.30..
FINANCE
COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Finance Committee was afterwards held, the COLONIAL SECRE- TARY presiding.
Medical Votes
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $9,700 in aid of the following votes:-
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Medical Department, Other Charges:-----
Lunatic Asylum:
Fuel and light
Provisions for patients Washing
Victoria Hospital:
Fuel and light
Provisions for patients. Washing
Peak Hospital:
Bedding, etc.
Total
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, pital, bedding, etc., and the motion was agreed to.
Stowaways Ordinance
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the law relating to stowaways.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
.$ 800.00 2,500.00
100.00
2,000.00
3,000.00
300.00
1,000.00
$9,700.00
THE CHAIRMAN-The amounts asked for under the Lunatic Asylum and Victoria Hospital are due to the increased number of patients. As regards the Peak Hos
bedding, etc., was supplied out of the medical department's store when the hospital was taken over by the Com- mittee appointed by the Government and $1,000 is required to provide the articles to make good the deficiency.
Approved.
Vote for New Kowloon Golf Course
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $5,000 in aid of the