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FIRST COLUMN, Ordinance to be amended and item thereof,

2. Promissory Oaths

Ordinance, 1869.

1,

SECOND COLUMN.

Detail of amendment or repeal.

The Official Oath.

[ss. 3, 7.] do swear that I will

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(No. 1 of 1869.) well and truly serve His Majesty King George

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3. Distress for Rent

Ordinance, 1883- (No. 1 of 1883-)

Section 40,

the Sixth in the office of help me God.

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The Oath of Secrecy. [ss. 5, 7-]

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having been appointed Clerk of Councils (or Deputy Clerk of Councils) in this Colony, do swear that I will not directly or indirectly reveal such matters as shall be debated in the Executive Council and committed to my secrecy. So help me God."

4. Bills of Sale

Ordinance, 1886. (Na. 7 of 1886.)

(1) Section 23.

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(2) Section 25.

Section 40 is repealed and replaced by the following-

"40. The provisions of this Ordinance shall extend to New Kowloon and to any other land exempted from Part 1 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, notwithstanding anything contained in that Ordinance."

Section 23 is amended by the deletion of the words "twenty-five cents' in the second line and in the eighth line of subsection (3) and the substitution Therefor of the following--

one dollar "*.

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(2) Section 25 is repealed and replaced by the

following

"25. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations as to the fees to be taken by the Registrar.

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FIRST COLUMN. Ordinance to be amended and item thereof.

5. Ships (Proltibition

of Sale of Liquor) Ordinance, 1886. (No. 11 of 1886.)

Section 2.

SECOND COLUMN, Detail of amendment or repeal.

Section z is amended by the deletion of the words "not propelled by steam" in the fourth line thereof and substitution therefor of the following-

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not mechanically propelled ".

6. Jury

1887.

Ordinance,

(No. 6 of 1897.) (1) Section 4.

(2) Section 7.

(3) Section 10

(4) Section 27.

(0) Section 4 is amended by the repeal of para- graph (12) and the substitution therefor of the following-

"((a) all officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Defence Force, and also such other members of the said Force as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council.''

(2) Section 7 is amended by the deletion of the words "shall not exceed sixty** in the second line of subsection (3) and the substitution therefor of the following-

*shall not exceed one hundred and fifty", (3) Section 10 is amended by the deletion in the second line and in the fifth and sixth lines of subsection (1) of the words "or a Deputy Registrar'

(4) Section 27 is amended by the deletion of the words "good and lawful men" in the fourth line and the substitution therefor of the following--

"fit and proper persons

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