HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Objects and Reasons.
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The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
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When the principal Ordinance, No. 24 of 1903, was framed Jo allow of the taxation and recovery of the appropriate fee for counsel where the Attorney General had appeared and won his case, and when the Law Revision Ordinance, 1912, made such fees, in the absence of some contractual arrangement or regulation to the contrary, payable into the general revenue, the possibility of the appointment of an Assistant Attorney General or other counsel to assist in the work of the Attorney General's department was apparently overlooked.
2. In a recent appeal case in which the Crown was interested, the Assistant Attorney General appeared for the responent, and on the appeal being dismissed obtained an order for cost against the appellant. The bill of costs including fee for counsel was duly paid, but it was then discovered that it was very doubtful whether under the law, as it stands, such a fee was rightly included in the bill.
3. The present amendment cures this defect.
"FOREIGN MISSION SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC" INCORPORATION ORDINANCE.
HON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the Incorporation of the Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic commonly known as Maryknoll Sisters". He said: The order of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic was founded in the year 1912.
The order is a Roman Catholic one and the head of the order is Mother Mary Joseph Rogers who is a citizen of the United States of America and she resides at Ossining, in the State of New York, where the operations of the whole order are directed from.
For the purposes of General Administration the order is divided into units known as Regions each controlled by a Regional Superior.
There are several Regions in the United States and one each in the South China, North China, Manchukuo, Korea, The Philippine Islands and Hawaii.
The main work of the order is Educational, Medical and Missionary.
The South China Region confines its work mainly to that of education and has been in operation here for about thirteen years.
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