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HONGKONG,

ANNO NONO

VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. 6 of 1845.

Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,

B Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the

Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1844, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE AT HONGKONG, AND TO SUBSTITUTE OTHER PROVISIONS IN LIEU

THEREOF.

[19th August, 1845.]

Title.

Preamble.

L. WHEREAS it is expedient that the matters embraced in Ordinance No. 15 relating to the establishment of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Trial by Jury, Criminal Pro- ceedings, and the Summary Jurisdiction of the Court, should be provided for by separate and distinct Ordinances; Be it there- fore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said Ordinance No. 15 shall, from and after Ordinance No. 15

of 1844 repealed. the passing of this Ordinance, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

ed.

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That from and Former Court at after the passing of this Ordinance, the Court at Hongkong Hongkong abolish- with Criminal and Admiralty Jurisdiction, which has hitherto been holden by the Chief Superintendent, shall be, and it is hereby abolished.

of Record to be in-

III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall A Supreme Court be within and for the Colony of Hongkong a Court, which stituted therein.

shall

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