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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Proclamation No. 13.-The Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 Edition), Volume II, 1901-1914, to come into operation.
Proclamation No. 14.-The Royal Naval Reserves, or such part of them as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may direct, called into actual service.
Proclamation No. 15.-Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance, 1936, Ordinance No. 4 of 1936, to come into operation as regards certain lots on 6th October, 1939.
Administration Reports, 1938:-
Part II.-Law and Order :-
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Report on the New Territories, District Office, North.
Part IV.-Education:-
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Report of the Director of Education.
FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Governor, moved that the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 7), dated 14th September, 1939, be adopted.
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed
to.
MOTION.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved. That the Order dated 28th day of September, 1939, made by the Chief Justice under section 32 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, Ordinance No. 3 of 1873, be approved.
He said: The effect of His Honour's Order is to rescind, retrospectively as from and including 2nd September, 1938, a part of the Supreme Court Fees order in the Regulations of Hong Kong dealing with commission to be paid to the Official Administrator. The reason for rescinding this order is that in the first volume of the Ordinances, section 24, Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, the question of commission is regulated by a scale. In the corresponding volume of the regulations, it is regulated in a different manner under the Supreme Court Fees Order.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Order was approved.
VOLUNTEER (NO. 2) AMENDMENT BILL, 1939.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend further the Volunteer Ordinance,
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