492 ORDINANCES Nos . 3 AND 4 OF 1861 .
Chancery Procedure. Salvage Prize.
unless the Court shall certify that the refusal to admit was reasonable ;
and no costs of proving any document shall be allowed unless such
notice be given, except in cases where the omission to give the notice is ,
in the opinion of the Taxing Master, a saving of expense.
Rules and or
ders how and 6. The Chief Justice of the said Colony may, from time to time,
by whom to make general rules and orders for carrying the purposes of this Ordinance
be made.
into effect, and for regulating the times and form and mode of procedure ,
and generally the practice of the said Court in respect of the matters to
which this Ordinance relates , and for regulating the fees and allowances
to all officers of the said Court and practitioners therein in respect to
such matters, and so far as may be found expedient for altering the
course of proceeding hereinbefore prescribed in respect to the matters to
which this Ordinance relates , or any of them, and such rules and orders
may from time to time be rescinded or altered by the like authority , and
all such rules and orders shall take effect as general orders of the said
Court.
Practice un 7. Until general rules and orders shall be made in pursuance of the
til rules and
orders made. powers contained in this Ordinance, the times and forms and mode of
procedure, and generally the practice of the said Court in its Equity
Jurisdiction in respect of the matters to which this Ordinance relates,
and the fees and allowances in respect to such matters , shall be regulated
and determined by and according to the practice now in force in the said
Supreme Court in its Common Law Jurisdiction or in its Equity Juris
diction, as the case may be, or as near thereto as the circumstances of the
case will admit, and in case of question in any particular suit or cause,
then by the decision of the said Supreme Court.
No. 4 of 1861.
Title. An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 5 of 1857 .
[ 29th June, 1861. ]
B it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
BB advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Ordinance No. 5 1. The Ordinance No. 5 of 1857, intituled " Au Ordinance for Salvage and Prize
of 1857 repealed.
in certain cases " is hereby repealed .
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887. ]