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HONG KONG, 1906.
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of a collection of Chinese economic products was formed. Progress was made with the purchase of Chinese pine plantations, which are suitably placed to augment Government planting. Investigations were continued with a view to utilizing waste ground in the New Territories, and attention was in particular directed to the possibilities of tea and candlenut trees for this purpose.
(E.) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE of Land.
The amount received from sales of Crown land was $315,733.21, being some $76,500 less than the receipts for the previous year. This falling off may be attributed to the general depression of business throughout the year, and the consequent tightness of the money market. The principal items were for extensive pier-rights at Kowloon Point for Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, sites for workmen's dwellings in connection with Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's shipyard at Quarry Bay, and land for extensions of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company's premises at Hunghom.
III--LEGISLATION.
Seventeen Ordinances were passed during 1906, two of which, the Married Women's Property Ordinance, No. 5 of 1906, and the Criminal Evidence Ordinance, No. 14 of 1906, are designed to bring the law of the Colony into line with English Statutes. The former accords to married women in Hong Kong the like protection with regard to their property as is enjoyed by married women in England and other parts of the Empire. The latter introduces the amendment made in the law of England by the Imperial Enactment 61 and 62 Victoria, Cap. 36, by which in all criminal proceedings an accused person and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such person are made competent witnesses for the defence.
The discovery of iron ore in considerable quantities in the New Territories led to the introduction of the Prospecting and Mining Ordinance, No. 7 of 1906, under which the Government is empowered to grant licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases of land for the purpose of working mines and minerals.
The Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, No. 15 of 1906, was passed to remove any doubt as to whether the provisions of the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1901, applied to morphine and all compounds of opium in addition to prepared opium. The Ordinance at the same time makes better provision for the establishment of bonded warehouses for morphine and compounds of opium.
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HONG KONG, 1906.
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of a collection of Chinese economic products was formed. Pro- gress was made with the purchase of Chinese pine plantations, which are suitably placed to augment Government planting. Investigations were continued with a view to utilizing waste ground in the New Territories, and attention was in particular directed to the possibilities of tea and candlenut trees for this purpose.
(E.) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE of Land.
The amount received from sales of Crown land was $315,733.21, being some $76,500 less than the receipts for the previous year. This falling off may be attributed to the general depression of business throughout the year, and the consequent tightness of the money market. The principal items were for extensive pier-rights at Kowloon Point for Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, sites for workmen's dwellings in connection with Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's shipyard at Quarry Bay, and land for extensions of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company's premises at Hunghom.
III--LEGISLATION.
Seventeen Ordinances were passed during 1906, two of which, the Married Women's Property Ordinance, No. 5 of 1906, and the Criminal Evidence Ordinance, No. 14 of 1906, are designed to bring the law of the Colony into line with English Statutes. The former accords to married women in Hong Kong the like protection with regard to their property as is enjoyed by married women in England and other parts of the Empire. The latter introduces the amendment made in the law of England by the Imperial Enactment 61 and 62 Victoria, Cap. 36, by which in all criminal proceedings an accused person and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such person are made competent witnesses for the defence.
The discovery of iron ore in considerable quantities in the New Territories led to the introduction of the Prospecting and Mining Ordinance, No. 7 of 1906, under which the Govern- ment is empowered to grant licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases of land for the purpose of working mines and minerals.
The Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, No. 15 of 1906, was passed to remove any doubt as to whether the provisions of the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1901, applied to morphine and all compounds of opium in addition to prepared opium. The Ordinance at the same time makes better provision for the establishment of bonded warehouses for morphine and com- pounds of opium.
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