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No. 19 of 1895.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to prohibit the defacing or chopping of British Dollars.

William Robinz57

Governor.

August, 1893.]

BE

E it euncted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows -

1. British Dollar means the Dollar coined in pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council (the British Dollar Onler, 1895) dated the 2nd day of February, 1895, and published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of March 801b, 1895. Government Notification No. 128.

2. It is hereby declared illegal to deface any British Dollar by stamping thereon any nume or word or mark, ur by cutting, punching or chopping such Dollar in any way whatever. No tender of payment of money made in this Colony in auch Dollar or Dollars so defaced shall be a legal tender.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th day of August, 1895.

Interprete

The Icing,

prakt. Trufioni coins *** LUORET.

1.82. Bucch

Acting Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the

day of August, 1895.

Mtlewarthockhart

Colonial Secretary.