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I certify that adequate and timely notification
was made of the intentions of the parties concerned to apply
to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for an Ordinance
styled "An Ordinance to extend for a further period the
powers granted by the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance,
1911, to the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, to make,
issue, re-issue and circulate notes in the Colony" before
the same was brought into Legislative Council. Such
notifications were made in the following manner.
Notice of the intention of the parties to apply
for the said Ordinance was advertised in an issue of the
Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 5th July, 1929, in three
issues each of two English newspapers circulating in the
Colony, namely the South China Morning Post and the Hong
Kong Daily Press for the period of the 9th to the 11th July,
1929; and in two issues of a Chinese newspaper circulating
in the Colony, namely the Kung Sheung Yat Po for the period
of the 9th to the 10th July, 1929.
A draft of the proposed said Ordinance was further
published in two issues of the Government Gazette on the 5th
and 12th July, 1929.
Goverment House,
Hong Kong, 2nd August, 1929.
لمة
NCemento
Governor, &c.